[TriLUG] Firewall/VPN?

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Wed Nov 28 11:40:01 EST 2001


I've setup over a hundred firewalls that either pass VPN protocols or act 
as VPN servers.  It's a lot easier than you think.

Is the VPN going to be Linux to Linux, or are you stuck using something 
like IPSec or PPTP?  Either way, no problem.

Jon

On Wednesday 28 November 2001 11:25, you wrote:
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> I'm trying to come up with a way of accessing my work network from home,
> and have been reading the following HOWTO on how to configure a
> firewall/VPN.
>
> http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/VPN-Masquerade-HOWTO.html
>
> Has anyone local gotten this working? One question I have is if I'll need
> two machines at home, one for the VPN/Firewall, and another to actually
> use. I've never set up a Linux firewall before so I expect it will take
> quite a bit of time to set up.
>
> Another problem is I don't have a fixed IP address at work. I could use
> dyndns or another service to register a domain name with the work
> servers, but was hoping to use a subdomain name like
> office.webperformanceinc.com. Does anyone know the procedure for
> registering a sub-domain?
>
> - --
> Michael S Czeiszperger
> czei at webperformanceinc.com
>
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