From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 18 22:42:23 2008 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 B5842106566B for ; Sun, 18 May 2008 22:42:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-144.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-144.bluehost.com [67.222.38.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A6638FC0A for ; Sun, 18 May 2008 22:42:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 3403 invoked by uid 0); 18 May 2008 22:42:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy5.bluehost.com with SMTP; 18 May 2008 22:42:23 -0000 Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=demeter.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JxraA-00065H-RT for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 16:42:23 -0600 Received: by demeter.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 18 May 2008 16:42:22 -0600 Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 16:42:22 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080518224222.GA97110@demeter.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5.2.0.9.2.20080518145034.00c412a8@192.168.0.30> <5.2.0.9.2.20080518145034.00c412a8@192.168.0.30> <5.2.0.9.2.20080518175447.00c41508@192.168.0.30> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20080518175447.00c41508@192.168.0.30> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.com} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with perrin@apotheon.com} DomainKey-Status: no signature Subject: Re: VPN setup question 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: Sun, 18 May 2008 22:42:23 -0000 --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 06:02:14PM -0400, Steve Lake wrote: > At 10:53 PM 5/18/2008 +0200, Mister Olli wrote: >=20 > >- what kind of traffic do you wanna protect? >=20 > Everything if possible. Basically I'm trying to create a=20 > protected Internet connection by using the VPN to allow me to connect to = my=20 > vpn server at my home office over an insecure public connection. I would= =20 > then use that vpn connection to securely securely surf the web from=20 > anywhere in the US or the world. =46rom what I'm reading, it looks like you want a secure proxy rather than a VPN, per se. SSH can be used to provide that functionality very simply: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=3D408 That explains how to use SSH for remote proxy service with Firefox, but it's simple enough to do the same thing with Pidgin for IMs and a number of other applications. Would that solve the problems you want solved? --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] MacUser, Nov. 1990: "There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production." --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkgwsM4ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKU6agCfdfw3+p57cst08+vyUNB5kegW W68AnA09XqNVmpUthH8KeIBXeEw/PXaC =IjIP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--