[ILUG] compressed tunnels

[kevin lyda]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:33:23PM +0000, Paul J Collins wrote:
> >>>>> "VC" == Vincent Cunniffe <vincent at cunniffe.net> writes:
>     VC> I was recently looking at tools such as FreeS/WAN, and was
>     VC> wondering if anyone's used anything like a compressed tunnel,
>     VC> such as linking a machine on a home network through to a
>     VC> remote HTTP proxy via tunnel.
> If you have ssh access to a machine on the remote network, you're
> sorted.  ssh can tunnel with and without compression.

yes, but if you're a nut like me you just run ppp over the ssh connection.
and while i'm unsure of freeswan's compression algorithm or settings,
i do know that ssh using compression level 3 speeds up web browsing
considerably.  several pages i view on work web servers are mostly text
and quite large.  i've seen netscape report 60kps via a 64k isdn line.
normally it reports 7.

kevin

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