[WBEL-users] Virtual Private Network and WBEL

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Ed wrote:
> 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.
> 
The easiest way to do this is to use one of the "appliance" distros for 
this purpose.  It's point-and-click easy.

Check out:

http://www.smoothwall.org/
http://www.ipcop.org/
http://www.astaro.org/

each of these can be set up and running in under 30mins including format 
and install.

-jk



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