[Info-vax] PPPD over Telnet

[Tim E. Sneddon]

mjjerabek wrote:
> We're trying to run PPPD over a telnet or ssh connection to our VMS
> machines as a poor man's VPN.  When I connect to a VMS machine and say
> ppp connect, this happens:
> 
> %PPPD-E-REMOTE, physical device specified cannot be a remote terminal
> %PPPD-F-ABORT, fatal error encountered; operation terminated

I checked the listings and apparently the error is a result of
having the DEV$V_RTT bit set. It could well break plenty of
other things, but if you had the privs to clear this bit in
the UCB you might get a bit further.

> 
> Why doesn't VMS's PPPD allow this?  I'm aware it's unusual, but
> because of the lack of control over the remote networking gear it
> would be very useful for us to be able to do this.
> 

It might be to do with the way characters are processed by
when DEV$V_RTT is set. I'm not too sure.

Tim.