Francois Goudal wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to setup a tunnel between a dialup computer and a server. > Since the cost of the dialup connection is extremely expensive (it goes > over satellite), it uses dial on demand, so that if there is no traffic, > the channel gets closed, so I'm not paying. > > I already tried some other tunnel stuff, like OpenVPN, but the problem > is that for the negociation between client and server, some data is > going through permanently (keepalive, and key exchange, ...), even if > there's no actual data to be transferred through the tunnel. > > I'm looking for a tunnel solution that would have no negociation between > the two hosts. Each host would be configured with the other end IP > address, and that would only make traffic when there is traffic to be > tunnelled. Is it something I could do with Vtun ? > > You might want to look at ppp mode. I've used it in the past and had a problem with dumb nat firewalls because vtun would only seend data when ppp transmitted. I had to add the lcp-echo-* options to pppd command line to fix my problem.
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