[Info-vax] PPPD over Telnet

[forrret.kenney@hp.com_nospam]

    As the person responsible for the decision it was based on what we
believed the use profile was likely to be and what we could adequately
test.  We also wanted to block if from running over DECnet for a number
of reasons.  So a test was inserted for Remote Terminals.

    If you really need to run it over TCP/IP submit a formal problem
report.  It should not be to hard to produce a test image for you to
try and if that works an official patch.


Forrest Kenney
Technical Project leader for PPP on OpenVMS


"Tim E. Sneddon" <tim.sneddon at bigpond.com> wrote in message 
news:P69Il.5889$y61.5691 at news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> mjjerabek wrote:
>> We're trying to run PPPD over a telnet or ssh connection to our VMS
>> machines as a poor man's VPN.  When I connect to a VMS machine and say
>> ppp connect, this happens:
>>
>> %PPPD-E-REMOTE, physical device specified cannot be a remote terminal
>> %PPPD-F-ABORT, fatal error encountered; operation terminated
>
> I checked the listings and apparently the error is a result of
> having the DEV$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.