Re: Configuring Linux PPP server to listen to a TCP Port

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On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 02:37:31PM +0530, Lakshmi Shanmugam wrote:
> BSD Systems  Supports PPP over TCP and PPP over UDP.

[...]

> Now i want to achieve the same using linux system
> so what are the neccessary changes to be made in the configuration file ???

Did you actually *look* at the URLs Ravi gave you?


Erik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kernelnewbies-bounce@nl.linux.org
> [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounce@nl.linux.org]On Behalf Of Ravi
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 11:03 PM
> To: Lakshmi Shanmugam; kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
> Subject: Re: Configuring Linux PPP server to listen to a TCP Port
> 
> 
> >
> > I want to configure a Linux PPP server to listen to
> >  a TCP Port How do i go about it??
> 
>  PPP is a layer-2 protocol. You can't directly make a PPP
> server listen on a TCP port. But it is possible to tunnel
> PPP connections over a IP network. Take a look at the PPTP
> RFC (RFC 2637) and related projects:
> http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net
> http://poptop.sourceforge.net
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Ravi.

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J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw
Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl  mouw@nl.linux.org

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