Adam Thornton wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 06:30:27PM -0500, Post, Mark K wrote:
> > Do you really have a modem attached to your S/390 box?
> >
> > Mark Post
>
> Maybe he's trying to do the poor man's VPN.
>
> SSH over a PPP link. Works beautifully in Intel environments. In fact,
> I'm composing this message now over one.
Why use a poor man's VPN when you can get a real one at the same price? ;-)
Layering TCP over a TCP link has all sorts of nasty implications
with respect to network error handling, which is why proper VPN
protocols do not use a TCP connection.
The two main options for a proper VPN solution on Linux are
IPsec, through FreeS/WAN, and CIPE. Since IPsec is a proper
IETF Internet Draft Standard, and CIPE is not, FreeS/WAN is
probably the preferred solution, but CIPE certainly does work
as well.
Back to the original question:
Although I would also be interested to hear why one would
want to have a PPP connection on an S/390 system, the fact
that it cannot be configured with the current s390/config.in
seems incorrect. All other architectures support it, either
implicitly by sourcing drivers/net/Config.in, or explicitly.
--
Willem Konynenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas
that could provoke such a question -- Charles Babbage
