vtun over ssh using lzo on Gentoo

[Dean Troyer]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Eric R. wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has successfully implemented the vtund daemon 
> over ssh using lzo compression as described in the new Linux Server 
> Hacks book?

I haven't seen the implementation in the book, but I did run vtun over ssh
a couple of years ago with reasonable success.  It does suffer from the
problems generally associated with tunneling TCP over TCP: the windowing
tends to compound between the layers and the connection eventually hangs.  
In practice, I could sometimes work four a couple of hours and sometimes
only a couple of minutes.  But for a last-resort backup it is certainly
better than nothing.

dt

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