Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:14:52 -0600 From: "John J. Rushford Jr" <jjr@alisa.org> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VPN Message-ID: <01042614164000.27989@snow.alisa.org> In-Reply-To: <039501c0ce26$fccdaab0$0400a8c0@oracle> References: <EPEJLCLAKFDENCGMPJJDAEPHDEAA.arnaiz@encomix.es> <039501c0ce26$fccdaab0$0400a8c0@oracle>
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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
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