[plug] CIPE / VPN

[Craig Ringer]

>>Nonetheless, I've used PPP over ssh because ssh tunnels are known to be
>>pretty safe, the compression is useful, and because it's quite portable.
> 
> Something from the CIPE website :
> 
> Why PPP over SSH are not a good idea:
> http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html

Makes sense. As I've mostly used ppp-over-ssh for things like SNMP and 
other UDP traffic that I can't use a direct SSH tunnel for, I haven't 
had any trouble. I can definitely see the problem now - ick.

Oh well - CIPE appears to do the job well enough.

Craig Ringer


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