From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Nov 15 20:35:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AA7814C23 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 20:35:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA21860; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 23:35:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA24628; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 23:35:23 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: robseco@wizard.teksupport.net.au (Rob Secombe) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtual Private Networking Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 04:35:34 GMT Message-ID: <3830de18.658094710@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 15 Nov 1999 20:28:55 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.isp you wrote: >We are now being asked to provide VPN solutions for private net to private >net and roaming client to private net users. There are many commercial >solutions available but all seem to have some form of limitation ie. they >are hardware based (inflexible) or run on NT (yuk). I was wondering if >some has come up with, or knows of a FreeBSD based answer, open source >would be preferable but I certainly wouldn't exclude commercial packages. There are several in the ports/security section including one that works as a client or server with the NT implementation. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message