People dial into the PM, telnet to the host, then start PPP *there* then
this is run back to the PM.
So, you have a TCP/IP link FROM the PM to the host, this then carries the
PPP headers et all back across to the PM and the user. And PPP is carrying
their TCP/IP traffic.
So you have (TCP/IP(PPP(TCP/IP)))
You've added a lot of overhead to this connection, which adds up. You
also run the risk that some of the PPP traffic trips over one of the Telnet
control characters - unless you set the async map up for this.
Yes this can be done. Yes I've seen sites actually doing this. No I would
never encourage anyone to do this unless they had a comm server that could
not do PPP.
-MZ
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