From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 16 19:50:21 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A7316A417 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:50:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mnslinky@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F04013C467 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:50:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mnslinky@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so564607pyb for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:50:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=Xc6IPaae1xV3YjAkoDjwIgM40EdPINPj949WkUkJlwR1mDL4+Bd07tKFdqDyw57ws73DnRsuDmUtkRxwuSGDWtCbsi7HWGStw/RAnJdFhSUEFGDxMBNI827ylVFSI0Uwn+oS85lnJHebaIQ+SXZvVg3T7vcOdBxukyZYX67beJo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=XVc5vw2PeIk+b0bMOzAoc1DRVGNAFsnxt+uXx1d6k1X/M8GdzULjIxbti4riUu6S3qz7Z8lQ6med8R10ipS09j+F2H86wTZR51xMdWUBEF79dHN0QYzXo7XeDht4nU8mMqn2ZK0ovNt4sJjj4bOoa9YuWGhrfUGtqKnPAPQNf8U= Received: by 10.35.83.20 with SMTP id k20mr2393811pyl.1187293819490; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:50:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.14? ( [74.95.66.25]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y78sm2034292pyg.2007.08.16.12.50.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:50:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46C4A761.9090902@shopzeus.com> References: <46C4905A.1020202@shopzeus.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20070816134035.0262cff8@mail.computinginnovations.com> <46C4A761.9090902@shopzeus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Eric Crist Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:50:15 -0500 To: Laszlo Nagy X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Derek Ragona Subject: Re: Share folder over internet X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:50:21 -0000 On Aug 16, 2007, at 2:37 PMAug 16, 2007, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > >> You need to create a VPN connection between your two offices. You >> can do this in a variety of ways, but probably the best solution >> would be to have static IP's for both offices and a router that >> has hardware support for VPNs at each office. You can connect the >> two offices via a VPN connection from router to router. > Well, we do not have static IP addresses, and the routers does not > support VPN. Also I do not like the idea of VPN because I feel that > would forward more packets than needed. I may be wrong. :-) > > Although we do not have static IP, we have DDNS. Is it possible to > do VPN from one FreeBSD box to another and then.... what? Mount > nfs? Mount smb? I can mount a remote smb volume then share it with > another smb server, but it looks wreid to me and I'm also concerned > about speed. I believe smb is not optimized for speed. If I have to > use VPN then I would like to use the most traffic-efficient method > over VPN. Can you suggest something? > > Thanks, > > Laszlo > Properly set up, the two office could appear as if they were local, only hindered by the speed of your internet connections. IMHO, a VPN is really the only way to go. Across that, you can use any method you'd prefer, NFS, smb, etc. Take a look at OpenVPN for more information. It's in the ports, and relatively easy to set up. ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks