On Thursday 23 January 2003 09:17 am, James Neave wrote: > A few questions on VPN'ing with freeswan if I may. > > 1) Does anyone know of a good guide? I'm a complete linux newbie...
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/guitarlynn/ipsec.txt and the "Bering Users Manual" in the ipsec section. > 2) Is VPN'ing client server or peer-to-peer? It's like a private cable connection, it doesn't do anything with permissions....that's up to the boxes themselves and NetBIOS/Buei or whatever. > 3) Before I break anything again, is this possible? For a single tunnel, yes. > 4) Is there minimum spec for freeswan? My bering box is a P75 with 16Mb > of RAM. Not really, but the encryption/un-encryption takes a lot of CPU and RAM, I would suggest a P166 w/32M+ if you have anything except minimal traffic and more than one tunnel. > 5) How many VPN tunnels could my box support? I'd like to try and link > several home networks scattered around the UK together. I don't know, but it should handle quite a few depending on your hardware. > 6) (Last one ;) My workplace is considering setting up VPN access to the > work LAN now that a lot of us have broadband. Is it possible for my > WinXP box to be connected to both VPNs through the bering box, but keep > them separate? Not if they're running IPSec. You can't use a box as a gateway and portforward the same service.... the box can only do one or the other on a given port (500). I hope this helps! -- ~Lynn Avants Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall developer http://leaf.sourceforge.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
