Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 22:28:21 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Simple Virtual Private Network ToolKit Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980326221744.3537I-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org>
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I am currently in the process of putting together a simple VPN toolkit using the FreeBSD Tunnel Device (/dev/tun?), and was wondering if existing work existed in this area. I have running code (yay! :) that uses the point-to-point support in the tunnel device, and uses a UDP transport to send/receive between two FreeBSD with some amount of flow-control and fault tolerance (i.e., if a network segment between the two machines goes down, it doesn't get too upset). Given the nice framework provided by the tunnel device, this was really simple to stick in. However, I am about to start adding some more significant features (authentication/encryption -- I'm currently using SKIP for this, and have a number of other features in mind, including more friendly fragmentation, etc). So I was wondering if a) there is existing work in this area, and assuming there is not, is there interest in the FreeBSD community in my making such work public? I was thinking of putting together a freely-available (e.g., BSD license) simple VPN toolkit. Thanks, Robert Watson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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