From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 6:36:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B5EF37B400 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 06:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.ruraltel.net (mail2.ruraltel.net [24.225.0.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB63843E6A for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 06:36:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darryl@osborne-ind.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail2.ruraltel.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g83DahB09823; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 08:36:43 -0500 Received: from darryl (p189n31.ruraltel.net [24.225.31.189]) by mail2.ruraltel.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g83Daac09765; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 08:36:41 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Darryl Hoar" To: "'Jim Durham'" Cc: Subject: RE: VPN - some questions Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 08:36:52 -0500 Message-ID: <003401c2534e$f6b8dce0$0701a8c0@darryl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200208310000.21316.durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My home client could be Windows 2000 or Linux. I would want to connect to my work LAN through the internet. My Firewall is FreeBSD 4.5. I need: 1. a tutorial for setting up VPN on my FreeBSD fireall. 2. Recommendation for VPN client to run on my home machine (windows 2000 or Linux. My machine is dual boot). 3. a tutorial for setting up VPN client on my home machine. thanks, Darryl >From: Jim Durham [mailto:durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us] >Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:00 PM >To: darryl@osborne-ind.com >Subject: Re: VPN - some questions > > >On Friday 30 August 2002 12:33 pm, Darryl Hoar wrote: >> Greetings, >> my LAN is connected to the internet in the following fashion: >> >> SMC DSL Modem (static IP address assigned) -> >> FreeBSD Firewall NIC1 (DHCP assigned IP from DSL Modem) >> FreeBSD Firewall NIC2 is connected to my LAN. >> >> I want to be able to access my LAN from the internet using VPN. >> If I configure VPN on the Firewall, and use a VPN client on my >> home computer, should I be able to access my LAN? >> >> I looked on FreeBSD.org handbook, and FAQ, but didn't see >> any VPN. (I also might be blind.). >> >> Any pointers on how to set this up? >> > >mpd from the ports collection does well for Windows VPN >clients and IPSEC >works well for FreeBSD. You didn't say what OS you wanted to >use to connect >via VPN. > >IPSEC is a kernel option. mpd uses the netgraph interface in >the kernel. It >comes with a sample config file that shows how to set it up >for Microsoft's >VPN clients. > >-Jim > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message