Re: [aclug-L] Virtual Private Networks

[Jeremy Johnstone <jsjohnst@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, I will go through all my notes on the subject and formulate a specific
solution for your needs. Expect my email by Sunday.

On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Bob Deep wrote:

> Jeremy Johnstone wrote:
> > 
> > I have what do you need to know?
> > 
> 
> Could not find any "how-to's" on the subject... But this is what we are
> trying to do.
> 
> We have internet connectivity, they do to.
> 
> We need to communicate between our two networks the least expensive way
> possible, but we need fairly high bandwidth for multiple users.
> 
> We also need security...  Don't want to open our internal networks to
> the internet, So, we thought that setting up a VPN, using an encrypted
> link would be just the thing.
> 
> If we opened up the firewalls to allow a specific IP connection between
> two hosts, package up IP traffic, encrypt it and pass it back and forth
> between the two hosts we would be in busniess...
> 
> The questions are then fairly simple:
> 1.  What can you use to package up IP traffic and send it down a single
> IP pipe (Just like PPP does down serial pipes...Hmmm might work you
> know.)  Basicly we need a demon to run our new network device, and route
> the proper packets to it.
> 2.  What can you use to do compression and encryption on the data as it
> leaves and arrives on each end..
> 
> The firewall and network setup stuff, we have fairly well in hand.  We
> would like to avoid using any of the specialized VPN hardware arround. 
> I think we should be able to do fairly high bandwidth with a small linux
> box doing the pack/unpack and encrypt/decrypt functions.
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