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Date:      Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:29:37 +0200
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brian Herman <brian@cybox.com>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with IPSEC in handbook
Message-ID:  <20040914192937.GA7165@abigail.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <2071E0FA-0600-11D9-9FC5-000A95908F0E@cybox.com>
References:  <2071E0FA-0600-11D9-9FC5-000A95908F0E@cybox.com>

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On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 09:42:39PM -0600, Brian Herman wrote:
> I have found a bug in the IPSEC section of the freebsd handbook:
> 
> In the document:  
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ipsec.html
> 
> Section 14.11.2 The Problem - states:
> 
> There's no standard for what constitutes a VPN. VPNs can be implemented 
> using a number of different technologies, each of which have their own 
> strengths and weaknesses. This article presents a number of scenarios, 
> and strategies for implementing a VPN for each scenario.
> 
> Then begins:
> 14.11.3 Scenario #1: Two networks, connected to the Internet, to behave 
> as one
> 
> However, this html page ends without ever going into any other 
> scenarios.  14.11.2 implies there should be at least 11.3, 11.4, and 
> perhaps more.
> 
> The links at the bottom of this page go forward to
> 14.12 - Open SSH
> and backward to
> 14.10 - OpenSSL
> 
> So I can't tell if the IPSEC document 14.11 is incomplete, or if it 
> simply has improper links in it.  Thanks for taking a look at this.
>

It's wellknown issues :(

I mentioned these problems months ago.  Since I do not have any idea of
what are the other scenarios, I will just "axe" the mention to other
ones.

Marc



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