From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 26 19:27:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16339 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 19:27:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (AMALTHEA.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.91.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA16328 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 19:26:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from trojanhorse.pr.watson.org (n235-103.mtholyoke.edu [138.110.235.103]) by cyrus.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA12711 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 22:26:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 22:28:21 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Simple Virtual Private Network ToolKit Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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