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Other uses for cotty
by Faré - Apr 12th 2002 20:23:37
cotty is happily no more needed for use with the Linux PPP daemon.
Indeed, under Linux, pppd now has an option pty that serves the same
purpose
(check the pppd manpage for details).
However, cotty is still useful with BSD or Solaris versions of pppd.
Cotty is also useful to drive other programs that require being connected
to a terminal so as to work
properly, notably telnet or pptp. I notably use it in my automatic
reconnection script for ADSL.
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Using cotty to make a VPN
by Faré - Nov 3rd 2000 13:18:45
Comments in cotty.c are the documentation.
The main use of cotty is to build a VPN (virtual p{rivate,ublic} network),
as in:
cotty -d -- pppd silent 192.168.0.1:192.168.0.2 -- ssh -t root@remote
pppd
I wrote it for use with fwprc, as described in the
Firewall
Piercing mini-HOWTO.
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Making a VPN without cotty
by Faré - Aug 15th 2001 03:20:06
As explained in the Firewall-Piercing mini-HOWTO, cotty is unnecessary when
running a recent Linux pppd over ssh (as demonstrated above); but it is
still useful when running pppd over telnet, or when using a non-linux
pppd.
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