[eside-ghost] openssh 4.3. VPN's con openssh

[AngelD]

¡Bien!, ahora podré desacerme del "pppd" para mis maravillosos túneles.

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/ppp-ssh.html

On Thu, December 22, 2005 00:42, aktor wrote:
> Aupi,
> Leo con grata sorpresa las nuevas funcionalidades que va a traer openssh
> 4.3.
> http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375
> [...]
>
>
> The upcoming OpenSSH version 4.3 will add support for tunneling. What
> type of uses is this feature suited for?
>
> Damien Miller: Reyk and Markus' new tunneling support allows you to make
> a real VPN using OpenSSH without the need for any additional software. This
> goes well beyond the TCP port forwarding that we have supported for years
> - each end of a ssh connection that uses the new tunnel support
> gets a tun(4) interface which can pass packets between them. This is
> similar to the type of VPN supported by OpenVPN or other SSL-VPN systems,
> only it runs over SSH. It is therefore really easy to set up and
> automatically inherit the ability to use all of the authentication schemes
> supported by SSH (password, public key, Kerberos, etc.)