[UCLA-LUG] vpn?

[Erik Hovland]

> I have seen a few solutions, but none seem to get me where I want to go.
> Especially since I'm on a modem now, ppp over ssh seemed like a good poss.
> (compression) -- however I have only been able to find docs that are BSD
> specific, or that require dedicated boxes at both ends (as a VPAN.) This
> is Not Cool. (TM) Does anyone have experience pulling this sort of thing
> off, or any better docs you could point me to?

No practical experience. But at least one suggestion:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan/

This does require a dedicated server at the office (maybe the ipmasq box
could do it) and only works on 2.0.3x kernels but your home box could be
turned into a freeswan box pretty easily. One nice thing is that it
is based on IPSEC so it can play with other IPSEC based VPNs.

For compression ssh is nice but dxpc is actually better at X apps over
slow links (no encryption unless used through the ssh tunnel or FreeSWAN 
tunnel).

More info on dxpc here:
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~zvonler/dxpc/

Hope this helps.

E

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Erik Hovland
USC Linux User Group President
http://sclug.usc.edu/~ehovland/