[K12OSN] OT - easy VPN setup with cipe gone

Dan Young dan_young at mesd.k12.or.us
Mon Dec 5 21:29:37 UTC 2005


Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
> Dear Folks,
> 	a question off the regular track: what do you suggest I should use
> for creating VPN tunnels, now that CIPE is no longer available for new K12
> software? I got spoiled with CIPE being first choice in "neat".
> 	A connected question: is there an easy way to encrypt a GRE
> tunnel? It seems that creating them should be easy with ip command, I
> don't see the options for encryption.

OpenVPN is available in extras and encrypts TUN/TAP devices:

http://openvpn.net/
http://vtun.sourceforge.net/

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Dan Young <dan_young at mesd.k12.or.us>
Multnomah ESD - Technology Services
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