VPN options

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Unfortunately, Comcast has another restriction for residential customers
on their networks - no VPNs! :-(

Larry

>
> I am planning on running a Virtual Private Network from my Fedora
> firewall out to a UML virtual colo (running RH9) at another site.
> That site will be the place I present services to the world;
> httpd, ssh, sftp, smtp.  This is to comply with the "no servers"
> and dynamic ip restrictions on my Comcast connection to the net;
> if my firewall always drives an outbound connection to the
> colocation site, I am not worried about changes of ip address,
> and I am not opening any inbound ports.
>
> There are a number of options for the VPN - the most attractive
> are cipe ( http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html )
> and FreeSwan ( http://www.freeswan.org/ ), though I am told that
> one can do all this through an ssh tunnel.  I would rather have
> simple and secure than super-duper;  I have plenty of bandwidth,
> and will send outbound http and smtp from the firewall, so the
> main bandwidth user will be incoming spam/b/b/b/b mail.
>
> Anyone have some experiences to share about setting up VPN?  Is
> there anything about either cipe or FreeSwan that is likely to
> break with FC1 or FC2?
>
> Keith
>
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