From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 26 14:25:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.coastsight.com (ns1.coastsight.com [208.46.230.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A5E437B424; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:25:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from maillist@coastsight.com) Received: from ns1.coastsight.com ([208.46.230.17]) by ns1.coastsight.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 14stGS-0009VL-00; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:25:28 -0700 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:25:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Duvall To: "John J. Rushford Jr" Cc: Doug Young , hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VPN In-Reply-To: <01042614164000.27989@snow.alisa.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is cool! Now, is there a way to use MS_DUN VPN support to dial into such a private network made with FreeBSD so that people can telecommute? On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, John J. Rushford Jr wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, you wrote: > > I've just been going through this stuff for the past week. > > None of the things come with adequate documentation > > so you need to rely heavily on mailing list support. > > Thankfully a few people have been giving me > > some assistance but looks like at least few days more > > messing around will be involved before its working.. > > > > There is a basic HOWTO on one application at > > freebsddiary, but its quite dated now. The only other apps > > I've been able to find are vtund & poptop (both from ports) > > Judging from feedback I received to a similar question, the > > few FreeBSD users who use VPN prefer vtund. > > > > I did look at poptop (which reportedly has some security > > "features") in the hope it might be more straightforward to > > configure. You need to hack the makefile (its flagged > > "forbidden") to install, then theres a few compatibility issues > > to contend with (due to the linux heritage) .... I gave up with > > it at that stage. > > > > I think there may be other applications available if you can > > compile support into the kernel .... thats not practical for my > > present situation as I can't take the server end offline in the > > immediate future. > > > > Greetings, > > I just recently setup a vpn between two sites and have documented > my work at http://www.alisa.org/~jjr/vpn > > Have a look at it, I hope this proves useful to others > -- > John J. Rushford > jjr@alisa.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message