Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:43:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a VPN Server/Router Message-ID: <20060809124225.O65760@bravo.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <20060809173312.GA45250@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20060809173312.GA45250@ns2.wananchi.com>
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> I am going to venture into the field of the security gurus so help me > God! It looks like I am gonna get stuck in wet cement, I can feel it;) > > I have two sites, siteA and siteB. Each site has a horde of Windows PCs > behind a FreeBSD box, which acts as a firewall/router/proxy/everything:) > Each site has got a dedicated connection to an ISP. At the moment it's > the same ISP, if that matters, but my thinking is that it can be any > ISP. > > I have a challenge of establishing a WAN between the two sites. They > are geographically apart. In this scenario, siteA has several > applications running on several windows servers which are behind the > FreeBSD box. > The challenge is to allow siteB to access these applications securely > via the WAN setup. VPN comes straight to mind, but this is a new area > to me. > > The boxes are both FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE. > > I am looking for pointers/clues on how to do the setup in a clean way, > while adhering to K.I.S.S as closely as possible. > > If extra hardware (other than the FreeBSD boxes) is required so that > the WAN is efficient, I'd be happy to know. > > I am very optimistic on pulling this one off, since I belong to a > community full of security experts (FreeBSD users). > > PS: I am already googling, perhaps with the wrong keywords:-) It's been a couple of years since I did this, but this worked for me... http://www.pjkh.com/wiki/vtund -philip
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