[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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