From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 2 11:32:42 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 5CC7916A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:32:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.ipaccess.com (mail-relay.ipaccess.com [217.204.123.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBF6A43D4C for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:32:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ai1@ipaccess.com) Received: from magrat.ipaccess.com ([172.28.0.6]) by relay.ipaccess.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AcV26-00068Q-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 19:32:30 +0000 Received: from ipa-srv3.ipaccess.com ([172.28.0.71] helo=ipa-srv3) by magrat.ipaccess.com with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AcV25-0001dt-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 19:32:29 +0000 Received: FROM aragorn BY ipa-srv3 ; Fri Jan 02 19:32:29 2004 0000 Received: from [192.168.3.6] (helo=ipaccess.com ident=aivanov) by aragorn with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AcV25-0004yJ-00; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 19:32:29 +0000 Message-ID: <3FF5C74C.6030909@ipaccess.com> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 19:32:28 +0000 From: Anton Ivanov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, bg, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran References: <3FF5A7BB.4090304@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3FF5A7BB.4090304@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: nik@freebsd.org cc: "Pratt, Benjamin E." cc: doc@FreeBSD.org 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 19:32:42 -0000 Bill Moran wrote: > 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. It is a bit out of date. Frankly, I need to go through it and update it with some recent info. Also, I have some more info around on interfacing to FW1, cisco and other systems, just have not had time to properly compile it. > > 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 ...) I think it is also more of a question of maintaining it. I think you should ask the maintainers for the poptop, mpd and racoon ports if they will be willing to look (at least to some extent) after their sections. Cheers, A. > > -- A. R. Ivanov E-mail mailto:anton.ivanov@ipaccess.com WWW http://www.ipaccess.com/ pub 1024D/DDE5E715 2002-03-03 Anton R. Ivanov Fingerprint: C824 CBD7 EE4B D7F8 5331 89D5 FCDA 572E DDE5 E715