Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 19:32:28 +0000 From: Anton Ivanov <ai1@ipaccess.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Incomplete Documentation?? Message-ID: <3FF5C74C.6030909@ipaccess.com> In-Reply-To: <3FF5A7BB.4090304@potentialtech.com> References: <B9F8B2B0AB64B8469DA467A654DC33951DA603@EXCHANGE.campus.stcloudstate.edu> <3FF5A7BB.4090304@potentialtech.com>
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Bill Moran wrote: > 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. It is a bit out of date. Frankly, I need to go through it and update it with some recent info. Also, I have some more info around on interfacing to FW1, cisco and other systems, just have not had time to properly compile it. > > 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 ...) I think it is also more of a question of maintaining it. I think you should ask the maintainers for the poptop, mpd and racoon ports if they will be willing to look (at least to some extent) after their sections. Cheers, A. > > -- A. R. Ivanov E-mail mailto:anton.ivanov@ipaccess.com WWW http://www.ipaccess.com/ pub 1024D/DDE5E715 2002-03-03 Anton R. Ivanov <ai1@ipaccess.com> Fingerprint: C824 CBD7 EE4B D7F8 5331 89D5 FCDA 572E DDE5 E715
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