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Date:      Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:11:00 -0600
From:      "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?q?Nicol=E1s=20de=20Bari=20Embr=EDz=20G=2E=20R=2E?= <nbari@unixmexico.com>,	freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        reebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Secure MSN and ICQ chat
Message-ID:  <200401142211.00719.algould@datawok.com>
In-Reply-To: <23621.148.243.211.1.1074138555.squirrel@mail.unixmexico.com>
References:  <23621.148.243.211.1.1074138555.squirrel@mail.unixmexico.com>

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On Wednesday 14 January 2004 09:49 pm, Nicol=E1s de Bari Embr=EDz G. R. wro=
te:
> Hello all.
>
> I want to secure the network traffic of the users on my LAN, I want to
> secure the MSN and ICQ data so people on the building can't use a sniffer
> and watch the conversations.
>
> I have something like this:
>
>
>     Internet                                Internet
>       ^                                       ^
>
>     router ( sniffer in here )                |
>
>
>
> FBSD server   <------ VPN/IPSEC  ------>   FBSD server on a secure network
>
>
>   Swith/hub
>
>
>     -----
>
>    | LAN |
>
>     -----
>
> Right now i have an tunnel with IPSEC to another FreeBSD Server the one is
> on a secure network and on a different building, what i was thinking to
> do, was to install a proxy on the Secure FreeBSD server and configure the
> MSN/ICQ clients to use that proxy so only that traffic could go out using
> the secure network.
>
> I would like to know if there is a better option for securing this
> communications, or if this idea is fine and what proxy software do you
> recommend to install for doing this.
>
> regards

What if you used a client on the FBSD server in the secure network via ssh =
and=20
X forwarding?

Andrew Gould




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