Re: PPP via telnet
Adam Goryachev (adamg@dot.net.au)
Wed, 27 Aug 1997 08:32:29 +1000
John Storms wrote:
>
> At 07:42 AM 8/25/97 -0700, Jason Godsey wrote:
> >
> >is it possible to have the pm3 establish a ppp connection via telnet?
> I
> >am currently trying to do it via pppd in bsb but cannot seem to get
> the
> >routing correct
>
> The reason this will not work is because Telnet is a network
> application
> that requires a TCP socket. In order to have a TCP socket you must
> have a
> network connection which is obtained by negotiating PPP. So your
> prblem
> have a "which comes first, the chicken or the egg?" syndrome.
After seeing a number of these type of responses to this question, I again find
myself thinking, "Is that what he really wanted to do??", and I come up with
the following:
Maybe what he meant is "Can I get a telnet session between the portmaster and
'some other machine' and then run PPP over that telnet session, ie, doing what
IPIP does... The answer is, I doubt it very much, certainly you could do this
between two *NIX boxes, but very very unlikely including one or both ends with
a portmaster....
Perhaps someone else can comment on that???
Regards,
Adam Goryachev
adamg@dot.net.au