On Sat, 10 May 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 08:58:39AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > On Saturday 10 May 2003 01:28, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > Is there a particular reason why the packaged s390 kernel don't include > > > the ppp module? > > > > No, I don't think there is any reason except that ppp doesn't seem to make > > much sense on a machine without support for serial ports. > > > > Rod, may I ask what are actually doing with ppp? > > PPP is a protocol, not a device driver. It does not depend on any > particular hardware in order to be useful. It works over any transport > which provides a bidirectional stream of bytes. >
I have, and thinking about doing again, used ppp over ssh to build tunnels. Not of all that much use under VM to go from instance to incance, where hiper-sockets/vlan is better, but it can be handy to connect two machines' vlan without having to deal with the networking crew. Have you looked into ppoe or stunnel? .karl -- Karl Schlitt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
