Mike <Michael.Johnson@mejl.com> wrote:
It would be neat if SSH Tunnel was compatible with PPTP, but I guess it's not.
Well, I don't know why you'd want to use PPTP anyway. A friend of mine tried connecting a Win95 PPTP client to my Linux box with a pppd running on port 1723. Windows bluescreened immediately and had to be rebooted. Makes me wonder what one could do to an NT server which happened to leave port 1723 open... BTW, you don't need the new ssh to tunnel ppp, you can do it with the standard ssh. I've been doing it for over a year now, originally with the old public-domain ssh version. If you don't need encryption, you should use RFC1853 tunneling instead. The overhead is much less than that of PPTP or ssh, so it will be faster. It's included in Linux 2.0, tho not compiled in by default.