Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:17:47 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Pratt, Benjamin E." <bepratt@stcloudstate.edu> Cc: ai1@ipaccess.com Subject: Re: Incomplete Documentation?? Message-ID: <3FF5A7BB.4090304@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <B9F8B2B0AB64B8469DA467A654DC33951DA603@EXCHANGE.campus.stcloudstate.edu> References: <B9F8B2B0AB64B8469DA467A654DC33951DA603@EXCHANGE.campus.stcloudstate.edu>
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Pratt, Benjamin E. wrote: > Hello - > > I'm writing in regards to the FreeBSD Handbook section "VPN over IPsec" > found at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ipsec.html. > > It seems to me the documentation is incomplete and I'm just writing to > verify this. My reasons for believing the documentation is incomplete > are: > > 1) "This article presents a number of scenarios, and strategies for > implementing a VPN for each scenario." > > I only see one scenario for implementing a VPN. > > 2) "3. Configure additional software on the FreeBSD gateways, to allow > Windows machines to see one another across the VPN." > > I see the first two "stages" of implementing the first scenario > but not the third. Oddly enough, I'm seeing the exact same thing in my quest to understand IPsec. ;) > I came to the handbook, which has been incredibly helpful in many other > instances, to try to find out how to create an IPsec VPN between an end > user's machine, running either Windows 2000/XP or FreeBSD, and a remote > network, as would be done in a traveling user, remote access from home, > or wireless security scenario. I'm sure many others have set this up > but the first place I go to for FreeBSD documentation is the handbook. http://www.sigsegv.cx/FreeBSD-WIN2K-IPSEC-HOWTO.html Seems pretty good. Is there any reason why this couldn't be incorporated into the handbook? If a committer will back me up (with a promise to commit ;), I'll do the legwork of converting it to docbook (as well as some editing ...) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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