[PLUG] FreeS/WAN Info

[Sean Whitney]

My employer was in the middle of Chapter 7 and without funds, but needed 
connectivity between offices in Vancouver, Honolulu and San Luis Obispo after 
they sold off everything else to another company.

I worked with two people who did a basic debian install on two boxes in 
Honolulu and SLO.  I then sshed into the remote boxes and created a freeswan 
vpn between all the sites.  I set up all the specifics over the existing 
corporate wan.  After the company was sold off they fired up the Freeswan 
boxes.  The first night we had some problems.  Pings worked fine but 
windows-goo domain syncing was failing.  After some careful looking and some 
google searches I discovered that the ethernet MTU size had to be 1493 to  
accommodate the vpn infrastructure.  After that it justed worked.  They never 
called or reported any problems.

The other caveat to this is that all the machines where 133Mhz to 200Mhz, no 
big CPUs were required.


Sean




On Thursday 18 April 2002 21:34, you hammered at the keyboard:
> Quoting Carla Schroder <pluglist at bratgrrl.com>:
> > On Thursday 18 April 2002 10:21 am, you wrote:
> > > I believe Carla was asking about this a while back.
> > >
> > > Build a Flexible VPN with FreeS/WAN and Linux
> > > http://networking.earthweb.com/netos/article/0,,12083_1011451,00.html
> > >
> > > Ha!  Just noticed this is Carla's article, so I guess she's seen it.
> >
> > Yep, that Carla chick's pretty smart. My fave author.
> >
> > FreeS/WAN is most impressive. I've been looking at a lot of different
> > free VPN tools, it tops my list. Of course the biggest headache is
> > connecting Windows and Mac clients. Them two just don't like to play with
> > the other kids.
> >
> > I saw an interesting free project somewheres using SSH and PGP to set up
> > a VPN. Free is more attractive than usual, as pricing on commercial
> > products tends towards sky-high. For example, SuSE has a VPN/firewall
> > edition that lists around $1100.  For that kind of money it better rub my
> > feet and wash the dishes.
>
> On a side- and somewhat late-note to the discussion, I once got a VPN
> working briefly using SSH and PPPd.  There was pinging and a talk session
> and generaly complaints about speed and we resolved to instead, just not.
>
> But it's not difficult!  I've been meaning to fiddle with frees/wan -- I'd
> be interested in any cavets or success stories. :)
>
> -Dave
>
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