[PLUG] Re: Connecting two networks.

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu Dec 5 17:54:03 UTC 2002


On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Chesley A. Windon wrote:

> One that I did not see mentioned (though it wouldn't be the first time I 
> missed a post in my plethora of email) is IPSec.  I assisted in setting 
> this up once between three locations, each with their own unique 
> 192.168/16 address schema.  Once it was set up, we could browse the 
> private LAN of the other two locations as if they were local.
> 
> I did find it difficult to set up even with the GUI provided by the 
> package.  Perhaps it was because I didn't really know what I was doing 
> at the time.  *shrugs*

  The latest issue of "Linux Journal" (with Star Drek on the cover) has an
article on using FreeS/WAN, the (a?) linux implementation of IPSec. It's
free (as in beer), secure, wide-area networking.

Rich





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