PuTTY wish virtual-serial

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summary: Virtual serial port over SSH
class: wish: This is a request for an enhancement.
difficulty: tricky: Needs many tuits.
priority: never: We don't ever intend to fix this.
>What would be really great would be for a way of running a VPN over a
>PuTTY link.
>My current thinking is that a virtual modem driver that runs plink to
>establish an asci link with the target server. Then ppp can be ran on
>the remote machine just like modem dialups.

My (bjh) feeling is that this shouldn't need any work on our part, since the driver ought to be able to invoke Plink itself, like CVS et al do.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2004-11-16 15:27:00 +0000)
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