From owner-freebsd-net Mon Nov 6 21:16:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (smtp.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5956D37B479 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 21:16:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from johnny5 ([64.229.46.74]) by tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20001107051637.BQWJ10530.tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@johnny5>; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 00:16:37 -0500 Message-ID: <001701c04879$5bb93140$0100000a@johnny5> Reply-To: "John Telford" From: "John Telford" To: , References: <27518.973572646@coconut.itojun.org> Subject: Re: Tips, How-To on VPN ? Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 00:12:43 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "John Telford" ; Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 11:50 PM Subject: Re: Tips, How-To on VPN ? > > >> Hi, > >> Am I on the right track here ? > >> Here's the scenario: > >> 2 locations with the same ISP, on the same public subnet. > >> Each firewalled with a 4.1.1 box. > >> Macs and PC's need access to Mac and NT servers in both directions. > >> Is a vpn/pptp the way to go here ? > > i'm not sure what is your goal here, but if you are trying to do IPsec, > http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/ipsec/ might be useful. > > itojun > Thanks, I look at the freebsddiary article because it describes pretty much what I would like to do ""Our goal is to make it appear to the machines on either LAN that it is one seamless network. Additionally we want any data that is transferred between the two networks to be secure (encrypted). We do that by setting up a secure tunnel."" I want the FBSD boxes to do all the work and users consider it a slow LAN connection without having to do anything on the client systems. Regards, John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message