[fwlug] VPN notes

[Simón Ruiz]

Rob,

My confusion at the last "business" meeting about why in the world one
would want to set up a PPP connection through an SSH connection has
been put to rest from checking out your slides.

Looks like it was quite the interesting talk, sorry I missed it.

Simón

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Rob Ludwick <rob at rcludw.no-ip.org> wrote:
> Here's a fairly good article that sets up the OpenVPN server itself.
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>  The only thing I disagree with is that the configuration should be
>  "proto tcp" instead of "udp".  Since client tcp clients will traverse
>  NAT's at hotels and public wifi points.  They also cover ethernet
>  bridging here.
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>  Note the handy cert table detailing which certs need to be on which
>  machine.
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>  One thing to note is that your primary interface on the server becomes
>  br0.  So if you have iptables scripts or other software where the
>  interface is defined by "eth0" that needs to change so it uses "br0"
>  instead.
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>  http://www.thebakershome.net/openvpn_tutorial
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>  As far as PPP over SSH, this is a good howto:
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>  http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/ppp-ssh.html
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>  The Xbox gateway source written by Jon Atkins is here.  This is a fairly
>  good reference for programming sockets, since he does pcap, raw sockets,
>  tcp servers, tcp clients, and udp sockets.  It also shows how to handle
>  select() as well.  He also uses zlib for compression.
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>  http://jcatki.no-ip.org:8080/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/xbgw/
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>  Attached are the slides in PDF form.
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>  --R
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