Re: PPP over ssh

ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
Mon, 4 Aug 1997 13:02:51 +0200

In ka.lists.linux.kernel, msmith@quix.robins.af.mil wrote:

>Could someone mail me their scripts for doing PPP
>over secure shell?

[redirected to linux-net, if this works :-]

This can be problematic if you forward TCP connections over PPP.
If a packet is lost, both the TCP stack for the ssh connection and
the upper-level TCP stack may decide to retransmit at the same time.
This will lead to congestion.

A better solution is CIPE by Olaf Titz, which uses UDP for
individual IP packets. See
http://www.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html

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