Just my $.02 - vtund rocks, I learned about it when I took on a side job doing linux/vpn admin for a medium size company. vtund connects their branch offices to their main office - it encrypts and compresses traffic between the vpn boxes at each end, which in our case are iptables firewall boxes. I am impressed with it - as mentioned it's user space and works with linux, bsd or solaris.... cu jjs Chris Dukes wrote: >On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:13:57AM +0100, fabrizio.gennari@philips.com wrote: > >>I was wondering whether the socket architecture could be modified in order >>to support PPP connections over a generic socket (of type SOCK_DGRAM or >>SOCK_SEQPACKET), by mapping each PPP packet to a socket packet. This idea >>is not completely new: somebody raised is in the past, see for example >>http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/mail/netdev/msg00180.html or >>http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/mail/netdev/msg01127.html . >> > >vtun already provides this capability in user space. >(See http://vtun.sourceforge.net/) >ppp(8) on *BSD also provides this capability in user space as well. > >As memory serves PPPoE on Linux is partially implemented in userspace >as is, so a partial user space solution for PPPoUDP shouldn't be that >wretched. > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
