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RE: VPN recomendations



May be it's a problem of diald -- I have a production system with three
simultaneous tunnel vision vpns running on tap0, tap1 and tap2.

Werner

> -----Original Message-----
> From: I. Forbes [mailto:iforbes@zsd.co.za]
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 12:54 PM
> To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: VPN recomendations
> 
> 
> Hello All
> 
> Tunnelv is a userland package that works via the ethertap device.  It 
> is quite neat and totally secure.
> 
> But it has a bug that conflicts with diald.  Diald will also use the 
> ethertap device if the kernel supports it.  The bug is that both 
> packages insist on using the first device "tap0" - at the same time.  
> I could not find an easy solution to make one of them use "tap1" - I 
> must still file a bug report.
> 
> Also the debian (potato) package is a bit lacking in scripts for 
> starting and stopping the daemon.  You will need to put together 
> some clever stuff to put in /etc/init.d/tunnelv (which is not in the 
> package) and maybe in /etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down on the 
> other end.  I suppose it all depends on what kind of network you  
> are working on.
> 
> Ian Forbes
> 
> 
> On 14 Sep 2000, at 10:09, Werner Fleck wrote:
> 
> > I am using Tunnel Vision 
> (http://www.worldvisions.ca/tunnelv/) for 18 months
> > now. It is easy to configure and it works very reliable. 
> And there is a
> > debian package "tunnelv".
> > 
> > Werner
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Kim O [mailto:koml@strato.net]
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 7:42 AM
> > > To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
> > > Subject: VPN recomendations
> > > 
> > > 
> > > was just wondering what the best way is to do VPN between 
> > > linux servers in
> > > different places to establish a small private network over public
> > > infrastructure. packages,software or howtos appreciated.
> > > 
> > > thanks
> > > 
> > > Kim
> > > 
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