[ale] VPN's

[David Hamm]

In your message you mentioned that Atlanta to Canada worked
great but Atlanta to Austin did not. What happens when you vpn from Canada to
Austin? Do you experience the same problems?  If you do then its time to
rebuild the Austin firewall.


 On Tue, 25 May 1999, Steve Tynor wrote:
>Gary Maltzen wrote:
>
>| Assuming you can so configure the underlying ssh session...
>| 
>| Did you try with compression both enabled and disabled?
>| 
>|        Compression
>|               Specifies whether to use compression. The  argument
>|               must be "yes" or "no".
>
>No, we've only tried uncompressed -- I'd expect compression to only make 
>things worse (introducing delay due to the compression algorithm's need
>to package up strings 'o bytes).
>
>| 
>| Did you try with the escape character disabled?
>| 
>|        EscapeChar
>|               Sets the escape character (default: ~).  The escape
>|               character can also be set on the command line.  The
>|               argument should be a single character, '^' followed
>|               by  a letter, or "none" to disable the escape char-
>|               acter entirely (making the  connection  transparent
>|               for binary data).
>
>_This_ however, we weren't doing (slap head).  However, we've now spent
>some time experimenting with a tunnel using "ssh -e none"
>(i.e. disabling the excape character), and we see _no_ improvement.
>It's so bad that if we telnet into the other subnet through the tunnel
>and type "ls -R", the connection hangs immediately -- not only does the
>telnet session hang, but you can no longer even ping through the tunnel.
>
>Thanks for the suggestions.  Keep 'em coming!
>
>Steve
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David Hamm
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Imaging Technologies Services Inc.
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