RE: VPN

["Phillips, Glenn" <Glenn Phillips airnz co nz>]

That's a good start at explaining it, Tony.

I would add that there is a HOWTO (part of the LDP?) I have read which
discusses setting up a VPN between two <Li|U>nix boxes by ssh'ing into the
peer and running PPP on both ends to tunnel over a ssh connection.

That sounds like a nice and free tunnel to me!

HTH,
G

PS. BEWARE of MS PPTP. There is a paper on www.counterpane.com from the
cryptograpy legend Bruce Schneier and Mudge from L0PHT about insecurities in
the OOTB PPTP. I'm sure MS have released fixes to the discovered holes.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tony Johnson [SMTP:gjohnson showmaster com]
> Sent:	Saturday, February 27, 1999 1:52 PM
> To:	redhat-list redhat com
> Subject:	RE: VPN
> 
> To talk with an excrypted connction BETWEEN SITES.  I know checkpoint
> firewall has a piece of software called secure remote that does just that.
> Raptor firewall also does VPN.  Isp that do it (I don't know of anythat
> would be this giving) can have thier remote access server setup with GRE
> Encapulation, but with Ascends, for instance, you have to devote the whole
> PRI to it, so don't count on that.  I'm positive certain Cisco routers can
> be setup in the IOS for VPN, but I'm not familiar.  NT RAS has PPTP which
> can talk encrypted between RAS boxes.
> Interesting topic...
> 
> Read the draft:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-heinanen-generic-vpn-mpls-00.txt
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lee, Steve [mailto:stevelee amgen com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 26, 1999 6:33 PM
> > To: 'Redhat'
> > Subject: VPN
> >
> >
> > Can anyone tell me the good about setting up VPN?
> > What is its main purpose.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> >
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