Re: IP over IP: satellite hosts
Am Die, 2003-06-17 um 19.47 schrieb Leonardo Boselli:
> I will have shortly this problem:
> Currentrly I have 5 labs with about 8 machines each, and 5 servers.
> Except 3 dual hosted servers, that act as proxies, the hosts have only a
> local private address . The labs are all connected to a central switch (I
> have a couple of 108 m cables ... but all seem to works nicely ...).
> In a few months 2 of the laboratories will be moved to a diffferent, quite
> far, building.
> I will not be able to lay a cable, but i will have to resot to using "regular"
> (althought fast) internet, trought some routers.
> I can connect to those routers only machines with public addresses.
> I need for some reason to keep the subnet "unitary" so using the same
> subnet as today.
> I thought of using some sort of tunneling on VPN, with one machine on
> each end connected on a NIC to "public" internet, and with another to
> private network. I need, since all servers are on one ond, to allow also
> broadcasts . (so the two gateways at the end of connection would
> appear to the machines as one switch).
> How to do it?
You could use debian-paket freeswan to build an ipsec-tunnel. Maybe you
have to compile your own kernel, to get the freeswan-patch in.
Put one half of your present subnet on one side and the second half on
the other side.
--
Wilfried Essig
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