From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 14:38:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18468 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 14:38:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA18329 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 14:38:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA28288; Fri, 8 May 1998 14:36:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 14:36:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Robert Cousins cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question re FreeBSD and tunneling In-Reply-To: <199805080214.TAA00727@silly.RCousins.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 May 1998, Robert Cousins wrote: > I've been using FreeBSD internally for a while and am > considering setting up a FreeBSD machine as my new firewall using IPFW. > However, I'm very interested in having tunneling access from some remote > sites. AltaVista Tunnel used to support FreeBSD but doesn't anymore. I > notice that there is a tunnel device (tun0, etc.) used by PPP, etc. Is > there actually a tunnel interface which I can use from the outside? Is > there client software which goes with it? The obvious question is -- what do you want to tunnel? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message