From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 2 09:17:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C86F016A4CE; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 09:17:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta9.adelphia.net (mta9.adelphia.net [68.168.78.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5470443D31; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 09:17:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([68.68.113.33]) by mta9.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040102171747.OLIL29600.mta9.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 12:17:47 -0500 Message-ID: <3FF5A7BB.4090304@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:17:47 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Pratt, Benjamin E." References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: nik@freebsd.org cc: doc@FreeBSD.org cc: ai1@ipaccess.com Subject: Re: Incomplete Documentation?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 17:17:49 -0000 Pratt, Benjamin E. wrote: > Hello - > > I'm writing in regards to the FreeBSD Handbook section "VPN over IPsec" > found at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ipsec.html. > > It seems to me the documentation is incomplete and I'm just writing to > verify this. My reasons for believing the documentation is incomplete > are: > > 1) "This article presents a number of scenarios, and strategies for > implementing a VPN for each scenario." > > I only see one scenario for implementing a VPN. > > 2) "3. Configure additional software on the FreeBSD gateways, to allow > Windows machines to see one another across the VPN." > > I see the first two "stages" of implementing the first scenario > but not the third. Oddly enough, I'm seeing the exact same thing in my quest to understand IPsec. ;) > I came to the handbook, which has been incredibly helpful in many other > instances, to try to find out how to create an IPsec VPN between an end > user's machine, running either Windows 2000/XP or FreeBSD, and a remote > network, as would be done in a traveling user, remote access from home, > or wireless security scenario. I'm sure many others have set this up > but the first place I go to for FreeBSD documentation is the handbook. http://www.sigsegv.cx/FreeBSD-WIN2K-IPSEC-HOWTO.html Seems pretty good. Is there any reason why this couldn't be incorporated into the handbook? If a committer will back me up (with a promise to commit ;), I'll do the legwork of converting it to docbook (as well as some editing ...) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com