From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 16 5:21:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shemp.palomine.net (shemp.palomine.net [205.198.88.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 092FF14F83 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 05:21:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjohnson@palomine.net) Received: (qmail 9853 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Aug 1999 12:21:12 -0000 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 08:21:12 -0400 From: Chris Johnson To: Michael Robinson Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP over OpenSSL Message-ID: <19990816082112.A9773@palomine.net> References: <37B789CE.794BDF32@netrinsics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <37B789CE.794BDF32@netrinsics.com>; from Michael Robinson on Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 11:47:26AM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 11:47:26AM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: > Is there any reason not to plug OpenSSL support into userland > ppp for use as a high-security VPN? > > Has anyone already looked at doing this? > > Is there a better (open and free) solution available off-the-shelf? > Try http://www.enst.fr/~beyssac/tunip.tar.gz. It lets you create a VPN using tun devices and OpenSSL. Despite the author's warnings, it works beautifully, and is reasonably simple to set up. I've had an absolutely problem-free VPN up for about a month using this. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message