The VPN HOWTO : Look at what's happening: 5. Look at what's happening:The master logs in into the slave, starts pppd, and redirects this all thing into a local pty. It consists of the following steps:allocating a new ptysshing into the slaverunning pppd on the slavethe master runs pppd in this local ptyand sets up the routing table on the client.There are (not very tight) timing considerations involved, this is why that 'sleep 10s'.