Piece of Unix Hints » PPP http://hints.jeb.be hints.jeb.be Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:35:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 PPP Over SSH http://hints.jeb.be/2008/12/17/ppp-over-ssh/ http://hints.jeb.be/2008/12/17/ppp-over-ssh/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:47:40 +0000 Jeb http://hints.jeb.be/?p=32 You may want to establish a full IP connection to a remote host (or remote lan) but you may not have any VPN software on the remote host, or on your host.
There is a solution using SSH and PPP with the command

pppd pty 'ssh -x -t -e none user@server /usr/sbin/pppd passive noauth 9600' noauth 10.0.0.1:10.0.0.2

You have to use key authentication because the tty is redirected to pppd so you can’t be prompted for a password.
With this command, you can reach server at IP 10.0.0.1.
By playing with pppd and route tables you can extend the IP tunnel to the entire remote LAN.

This has been tested between Mac OS X and NetBSD but should work with any system.
It works but it’s very slow.

On some system you may have TTY problem, if it’s your case take a look to http://shinythings.com/pty-redir/ or http://www.ishiboo.com/~nirva/Projects/vpn/

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