On Aug 16, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
You need to create a VPN connection between your two offices. You
can do this in a variety of ways, but probably the best solution
would be to have static IP's for both offices and a router that
has hardware support for VPNs at each office. You can connect the
two offices via a VPN connection from router to router.
Well, we do not have static IP addresses, and the routers does not
support VPN. Also I do not like the idea of VPN because I feel that
would forward more packets than needed. I may be wrong. :-)
A properly-configured VPN setup uses what Cisco calls a "split
config", where only traffic addressed to the subnet on the other side
of the VPN actually goes through the VPN tunnel; normal traffic sent
elsewhere goes out your normal default route. Some people have
experienced VPN setups where all traffic goes through the tunnel, and
those do indeed forward more traffic than they should.
Although we do not have static IP, we have DDNS. Is it possible to
do VPN from one FreeBSD box to another and then.... what? Mount
nfs? Mount smb? I can mount a remote smb volume then share it with
another smb server, but it looks wreid to me and I'm also concerned
about speed. I believe smb is not optimized for speed. If I have to
use VPN then I would like to use the most traffic-efficient method
over VPN. Can you suggest something?
Your goal to do filesharing safely over the Internet is best
satisfied by having a VPN between two static netblocks, or at least
individual IPs. openvpn makes a decent solution for FreeBSD, but if
you're not willing to get static IPs and configure a VPN, well, then
you probably need to re-evaluate your goals.
--
-Chuck
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