From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 18 21:23:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hades.riverstyx.net (hq-port-89.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 823CC14E07 for ; Tue, 18 May 1999 21:23:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from localhost (unknown@localhost) by hades.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA05549; Tue, 18 May 1999 21:30:06 -0700 Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 21:30:06 -0700 (PDT) From: To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Joseph Scott , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDI giving out old info? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Or ipsec... does FreeBSD have an implementation? I'm sure it does... that's even easier to use than SSH. --- tani hosokawa river styx internet On Wed, 19 May 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, 18 May 1999, Joseph Scott wrote: > > > > On Tue, 18 May 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > > > > And what about the VPN stuff? Don't we do some of this, with ports? > > > > > > ports/security/skip, though I heard somewhere there might be a ppp+ssh > > > tutorial for making a VPN. > > > > O'Rielly's VPN book has a section on using Linux+ssh to create a > > VPN. I took a quick look at it, I don't think there would be a problem > > doing FreeBSD+ssh to do the same thing (probably even use most of their > > steps :-) > > > > It's the 2 edition of the book, see : > > > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vpn2/ > > It's pretty trivial, really. Just run ppp over ssh either by using a forwarded > TCP port, or by using ssh as a stream data transport. > > The only thing I haven't bothered to figure out is how to make user-mode PPP > do the latter (i.e., for interoperation with kernel-mode pppd as found on > other platforms), but I'm sure it can be done fairly easily. > > Kris > > ----- > "That suit's sharper than a page of Oscar Wilde witticisms that's been > rolled up into a point, sprinkled with lemon juice and jabbed into > someone's eye" > "Wow, that's sharp!" - Ace Rimmer and the Cat, _Red Dwarf_ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message