From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 31 16:12:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 C5D7516A4DD for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:12:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18F6C43D86 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:12:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so643912uge for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:12:24 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=qwoW+0uosTslsizxxM9pFfQd7qE38ufFAqJknakrFquiYcO0fLW1u4RRYp88uWXcWncORH8bfgqX2horSWLmZc8pZMJsFGQD5dj4soo8zLRZRFiv72IFXbKtn4QmRAA5RxodjqeEFjj3kbt9y5/aK/A3/qQOH6BA1qImjWp0dnc= Received: by 10.66.216.20 with SMTP id o20mr612301ugg; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:12:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.98.16 with HTTP; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:12:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20608310912l45efdedcxc72c67f6adab562c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:12:24 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: can someone point me to some good and descriptive VPN documentation for my use? 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, 31 Aug 2006 16:12:38 -0000 I'm trying to VPN in to work from home, and the IT group there only supports windows. There are Cisco pre-configured clients for Linux, MacOS X, and Windows available, but not BSD. I tried running the Linux binary, but it wanted to move to a nonexistant driectory, and didn't tell me which directory it couldn't find, so I couldn't make the proper symlink. I looked through the VPN via IPSEC portion of the handbook, but was left wanting. Anyone know of a better howto? My questions from the VPN/IPSEC section: (1) My machine isn't the router - can it still work? (2) I don't want to send a lot of garbage to the VPN connection, should I connect the loopback (127.0.0.1), my local ip (192.168.1.84), or create a new loopback or virtual network connection (how?) Thanks, -Jim Stapleton