[WBEL-users] Virtual Private Network and WBEL

[Ed]

Jean LEE wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>  
> I am actually studying WBEL to know if I can use it in my company.
>  
> We would like to connect two private networks via internet (using VPN). 
> Each private networks are composed of MS and Linux stations with a Linux 
> router to share the internet connection.
>  
>  
> ----------      LAN          -------------    Internet           
> ---------------    LAN ----------
> -   1   ------------------------  Linux  ---------------------------  
> Linux    ------------   1    -
> ----------         |             - Router-                          
> - Router   -    |      ----------
>                    |             
> -------------                         ---------------     |
> ----------         
> |                                                                       |      ---------- 
> 
> -   2   
> ----------|                                                                       |-------   
> 2   -
> ----------         
> |                                                                       |      
> ----------
>                    
> |                                                                       |
> ----------         
> |                                                                       |      
> ----------
> -   N   
> ----------|                                                                       
> |------    N   -
> ----------                                                                                        
> ----------
>  
>  
> Has anybody already done this with WBEL ?
> What protocol did you use (PPtP, IPsec, SSH and PPP) ?
> Which way to realise it is the more secure ?

Probably the easiest setup VPN for linux is openvpn which is based on 
SSL over UDP encapsulating IP.  (http://openvpn.sf.net)  You don't have 
the performance problems of TCP over TCP protocols like PPP over SSH. 
Also, fyi, PPtP is trivially crackable, I woudn't use it for anything 
where security matters.

   Ed

>  
> I read the VPN howto and VPN masquerading howto but didn't find the 
> method to do it with 2.4 or higher kernel. Is there any howto for these 
> kernel?

Check the openvpn site.

>  
> Thanks for any help.
>  
> Jean.