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on-demand VPN using ssh and ppp

I already created a script that initiates a vpn with ppp through ssh.

The constuction of the script is:
1. kill ssh processes that is used for vpn.
2. initiate ssh
3. initiate ppp
3. add route
4. flush and reset firewall rules

Now I want to make it on-demand, instead of running the script manualy.

How?

ahoffmann

you need a default route pointing to the right device,
then use ip-up (or similar) which is invoked by pppd and write whatt you like/need in there

soulmate022700

ASKER

Well That's the problem, ssh has to be invoked first because it creates a pseudo tty where pppd has to tunnel through.

ahoffmann

just to clarify:
you invoke ssh on host A to connect to host B
then you tunnel PPP through ssh and connect to B too

means that you already have a connection to B
Why do then need to setup PPP on demand?

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The--Captain

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ahoffmann

oops, should have looked at the topic: **linux** networking
http://www.freeswan.org/ should do it, just to complete Jon's suggestion.

The--Captain

Ahoffman - hehe (I still expect that the answer will be "I need to connect with some Mickeysoft something or other" [which tends to deep-six a lot of pure linux solutions], since Big Brother Bill loves to ignore computing standards at the expense of the (computing) free world, in order to inflate his own wallet).

I may yet be pleasantly surprised.

-Jon

ahoffmann

LOL
but FreeS/WAN ('cause it's free) works with M$ clients too, sometimes, somehow ... (see PGPNet 7.03)

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