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Date:      Thu, 14 Oct 1999 12:55:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
To:        Patrick Bihan-Faou <patrick@mindstep.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pipsecd example?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910141254190.30090-100000@mug.adhesivemedia.com>
In-Reply-To: <029001bf15dc$33f44c60$190aa8c0@local.mindstep.com>

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Yahoo!

I got it working.  This is really cool.  I've got one final question --

how can I verify that it is indeed encrypting the connection?  I looked at
tcpdump, but I'm not the best network packet analyzer in the world :)

Thanks for everyone's help!  If I get a few moments I'm going to put
together a step by step and post it somewhere for others...

On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > My setup:
> >
> >           [---------]                                    [---------]
> >           [ FreeBSD ]                                    [ FreeBSD ]
> >  LAN A  --[    1    ]-- 1.1.1.1 -> INTERNET <- 2.2.2.2 --[    2    ]-- LAN
> B
> >  10.0.0.x [   3.2   ]                                    [   3.2   ]
> 10.2.0.x
> >           [---------]                                    [---------]
> >
> >
> > I've looked through the pipsecd.conf and it baffles me.  For example --
> > where do the values for the various keys come from?
> 
> Your imagination... As long as one end's remote key(s) is the other end's
> local key(s). There is a mistake in the sample configuration file. I will
> correct it sometime...
> 
> 
> > Also, a general question.  If I'm on client 10.2.0.5 and telnet to
> > 10.0.0.5, will it say that I am from 10.2.0.5 or from 2.2.2.2?
> 
> Well it depends... If you are not running nat on the "tunX" interface (which
> should be the standard case), then you will be comming from 10.2.0.5.
> 
> The "tunX" interface looks and behaves (almost) exactly as if you had a NIC
> card connected to a network with only 2 hosts (the local one and the remote
> one). The only difference is that instead of having a hardware connection (a
> ethernet wire), it has a software one (pipsecd). BTW, this also means that
> it needs an IP address on the network you chose as the "tunnel" network.
> 
> Patrick.
> 
> 



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