RE: Setting up a multi-platform VPN?
From: Brent Wiese (brently_at_bjwcs.com)
Date: 08/05/03
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To: "'Donald Burr of Borg'" <dburr@borg-cube.com>, "'FreeBSD Questions'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 11:08:32 -0700
Make your life much easier and buy a Snapgear box to act as your gateway.
The VPN support is great and easy to set up. It does both PPTP and IPSEC so
you're covered on all o/s.
It runs linux (freeswan for ipsec and poptop for pptp) so is very
configurable if you're familiar, although unlikely you'll want/need to do
much configuring.
At their pricepoints, its just not worth the time trying to get a regular pc
set up as the gateway/vpn.
Cheers,
Brent
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
> Donald Burr of Borg
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 5:12 PM
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org
> Subject: Setting up a multi-platform VPN?
>
>
> I am in business with a couple of friends of mine, and to
> that end we are sharing an office with a single high-speed
> DSL connection. We are using FreeBSD (4.8-RELEASE, soon to
> be upgraded to -STABLE) as our gateway for the ineternal
> network, as well as serving e-mail, Web, etc.
>
> Some of us like to work at home sometmes, and in fact there
> are even days when NO ONE is in the office and we're all
> working from our various homes.
>
> To that end, we would like to be able to set up a VPN, so
> that those people who are working from home can access the
> office network directly.
>
> Now here's the problem: all of us are using different OS's.
> I use FreeBSD on my desktop, but sometimes I like to work on
> the couch, in which case I use my Titanium PowerBook running
> Mac OS X (which is of course based on FreeBSD). My boss uses
> OS X on his iBook, and my other friend uses a Linux box.
>
> Now, with my (admittedly virtually nonexistant) knowledge of
> VPN, I know that Linux boxen tend to use FreeSWAN. FreeBSD,
> on the other hand, seems to use something called RACOON. And
> lord knows what OS X uses (although, since it's FreeBSD
> based, maybe RACOON can be compiled/adapted to use on it
> too?) (although I just did a Google search, and according to
> this O'Reilly Network article, it seesm that OS X has its own
> built-in PPTP
> implementation:
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/20/vpn.> html)
>
>
> Can anyone more knowledgable than I help me figure
> out how to get this multi-platform VPN monster going? Help!
> I need some backup!!
>
> Thanks,
> Donald
> dburr@borg-cube.com
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