Eric Spakman has just compiled pptpd for Bering uClib which I have got working. I haven't finished testing my set up yet but its looking good! The .lrp package is in the Testing area of the uClib packages download page.
So now I have a single 1.44 floppy router/firewall with dhcpd, pump, ezipupdate, bpalogin, weblet, dropbear (SSH and SCP!) and VPN!! Plus some other things that I can probably do without! Very functional, cheap, and a lot of fun!! And for those who think floppies are unreliable, I agree entirely which is why I keep an executable image of my router disk on a couple of workstations around the place so I can remake the router disk quickly. I have been playing with this stuff for a couple of years now and I have had a couple of disks fail while I have been playing (maybe because I have been playing??) but none in operation and given that once your image is settled you should not need to reboot the router for a long time, floppy reliability is not so much of an issue. Except maybe if your router is an environmentally unfriendly area. Beauuudiful!! Thanks folks. David Pitts IT Services Manager Reid Library University of Western Australia Telephone: (08) 6488 3492 Fax: (08) 6488 1012 -----Original Message----- From: Martin Hejl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 24 March 2004 4:21 AM To: JamesSturdevant Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Looking for a VPN Solution JamesSturdevant wrote: > I am running Bering 1.2 and am looking for a VPN solution for one of > my > users. > > Her ISP is Earthlink and she reports that here IP address changes > frequently (every 30 minutes). She will be connecting with a Windows > client. > > I have Freeswan working for others but their IPs are static. I have > tried OpenVPN but the LEAF software seg faults when a UDP connection is > made from a Windows Client and constantly reset if a TCP connection is > made. Does anyone know what kernel version this code was compiled for? It shouldn't matter. For all I know, OpenVPN is completely independant of the kernel version (unlike IPSEC), since it runs completely in user-space. Unless there is a compelling reason not to (like, extensive setup already done on Bering, or software that's not available for Bering uClibc), you might also want to consider switching to Bering uClibc - I maintain the OpenVPN package for Bering uClibc (I also wrote a patch to enable OpenVPN to work with "ip" instead of "ipconfig", which has found it's way into the latest version), and it's been _very_ stable for me (I'm currently running two OpenVPN links - one over the internet where both ends are dynamic and change IPs once a day, and one over a wireless connection, which goes up and down a lot, since it's used for testing wireless equipment). I'm not trying to "sell" Bering uClibc to you, I just don't like it that a fine piece of software like OpenVPN is being dropped in favour of something less secure, just because of a seemingly faulty package (and sorry, no, I can't help with fixing the package on Bering). Martin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
