Hello,
A bit more of information
As regarding to point (1):
===============
The institute has a web page where they explain that
"Access from hosts located outside: You should use the Cisco VPN
Client software"
For this, they give explanations to install it for linux, macosx and windows.
For the linux client, they specify that one needs:
* Red Hat Version 6.2 Linux (i386) or later, or compatible
libraries with glibc Version 2.1.1-6 or later, using kernel Versions
2.2.12 or later. [Note: No support of SMP (multiprocessor) kernels]
* Linux Kernel Sources configured according to your running kernel
What's worse, they provide you with a binary. This is proprietary
software and the sources are not available.
Other than that, one needs only the UNIX username and UNIX password
for authentication.
How can I do this without the Cisco VPN blobs?
As for point (2):
==========
I was meaning whether I can set up openvpn or so for my home wireless
connection, between router and laptops
thanks,
Pau
2009/5/31 Fernando Quintero <[email protected]>:
>
> hi,
>
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Pau <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have two questions regarding vpn.
>>
>> (1) My institute has a vpn net to which I would like to connect from
>> home. This would save me a lot of ssh'ing because currently I have to
>> go through two "portals"; there are also other intersting things, such
>> as being able to download papers from online Journals since our
>> institute has subscribed to virtually all existing journals in our
>> field.
>>
>> So this is the first newbie question: How do I connect to the vpn net
>> (of course I have all passwds etc) from my OpenBSD laptop? The
>> machines in the institute are linux but I think this is irrelevant.
>
> Uhmm maybe your institute give you some doc about that VPN, maybe what kind
> of VPN, what protocols or something like that.
> You need check if there is using pptp, ipsec, or vpn with certs, etc.
> If you get this information, configurate the OpenBSD box is easy.
>
>>
>> (2) Also, I have internet at home, of course. I can use wireless and
>> it's working pretty well but I am worried about security. WEP is out
>> of question, because you can break that one in a couple of 3 minutes
>> if you have a strong signal; I know it because I have played a lot
>> with aircrack for this at home with my own net and it takes that
>> amount of time. WPA is certainly more secure but with a good
>> dictionary I believe (never did it) that if you can gather some 3
>> hours of packets you should be able to break the password in some
>> hours.
>
> You can configurate good passwords for WPA, and protect your boxes, i think
> it's so difficult gain acces to your information with it.
>
>>
>> So I read "somewhere" (newbie, newbie) that you can use vpn to create
>> very secure wireless connection points. Is this true? If so, how can
>> this be done? How in/compatible is this with pf?
>
> Uhmm, do you want conecct 2 points? trought wireless?, i don't understand,
> pf works with that kind of conf. Just you need know what exactly want to do.
>
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Pau
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