Re: PPTP

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:01:35 -0700, Alan Williams wrote:

On Sep 26, 3:02 am, Rob Kendrick <n...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:32:28 -0700, Mike Carter wrote:
Does RISC OS support the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol yet?

Not to my knowledge. It's a pretty nasty Cisco/Microsoft hybrid VPN
protocol, for which there are numerous better alternatives that might be
worth you investigating.

But I doubt any of them will be available to RISC OS users, either.

B.

This does in fact raise some interesting questions about where in the
RISC OS network driver stack a VPN driver would actually fit.

Presumably it would have to provide a DCI4 device say pptp0, while
actually sitting on top of IP sockets at the same time. Effectively
connecting together the top and bottom of the IP stack.

Yes, I've been considering this problem. I have half of a "TUN/TAP" DCI4
driver to allow user land processes to inject and receive packets from the
IP stack written, which I started as both an effort to port OpenVPN as
well as a learning curve to eventually add networking support to ArcEm.
At some point, I'll find the time to finish it.

B.
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