Linux VPN

[Chris Wong]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, jay wrote:

> most people i know that run VPNs are using some kind of IPSEC
> implementation.  i think some of the implementations listen for
> connections from any host and then do authentication when a connection
> is made.

I used to use CIPE. Comes with RedHat 7 and reportedly works under it.
Rock solid, simple, easy to understand. IPSEC is rather overkill for our
purposes.

> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Jesse Manibusan wrote:
>
> > Warren,
> >
> > Thanks for the tip.  I will look into it.  Have you tried this method?
> > Also, for Roadrunner networks, do you know of a way to let the distant-end
> > firewall now your ip address if it is not known in advance or if it changes
> > due to a dhcp lease expiration?
> >
> > The only way I can think of doing this is having both firewalls post their
> > ip's on a statically addressed web server or something and have either
> > firewall grab the ip off of that.  Then I would have to use PERL to parse
> > the web page and get the ip from it.  Is there another way to accomplish
> > this?
> >
> > on 4/26/01 12:35 AM, Warren Togami at warren at togami.com wrote:
> >
> > > Whoops.  I just remembered it uses normal TCP/IP to encapsulate PPP to
> > > encapsulate SSH.  It has been over 2 years since I've read that document.  I
> > > suppose this isn't the most efficient way, but I haven't found any other
> > > free method.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
> > > To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 12:31 AM
> > > Subject: [luau] Re: Linux VPN
> > >
> > >
> > >> One low cost and effective method is using an SSH tunnel for your VPN
> > >> routing.  This document describes SSH VPN with PPP, but it can easily be
> > >> adapted for Roadrunner.
> > >> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/VPN-HOWTO.html
> > >
> > >
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