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From: "John J. Rushford Jr" <jjr@alisa.org>
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To: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: VPN
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:14:52 -0600
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, you wrote:
> I've just been going through this stuff for the past week.
> None of the things come with adequate documentation
> so you need to rely heavily on mailing list support.
> Thankfully a few people have been giving me
> some assistance but looks like at least few days more
> messing around will be involved before its working..
> 
> There is a basic HOWTO on one application at
> freebsddiary, but its quite dated now.  The only other apps
> I've been able to find are vtund & poptop (both from ports)
> Judging from feedback I received to a similar question, the
> few FreeBSD users who use VPN prefer vtund.
> 
> I did look at poptop (which reportedly has some security
> "features") in the hope it might be more straightforward to
> configure. You need to hack the makefile (its flagged
> "forbidden") to install, then theres a few compatibility issues
> to contend with (due to the linux heritage) .... I gave up with
> it at that stage.
> 
> I think there may be other applications available if you can
> compile support into the kernel .... thats not practical for my
> present situation as I can't take the server end offline in the
> immediate future.
> 

Greetings,

I just recently setup a vpn between two sites and have documented
my work at http://www.alisa.org/~jjr/vpn

Have a look at it, I hope this proves useful to others
-- 
John J. Rushford
jjr@alisa.org

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