On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 01:03, -ray wrote:
> 
> Shannon,
> 
> I am totally interested in doing this to connect two remote sites we have.  
> Two questions, that are probably in the faq, but why not keep some 
> discussion going here. :)  
> 
> 1.  Does OpenBSD use FreeSwan for the ipsec/vpn stuff, or does it have 
> its own implementation?  Freeswan is a pain, IMO...
> 

No the IPSec is implemented right into the kernel.

> 2.  Do you have one box at your main location that "terminates" the 
> connections for the remote sites, or does it require two boxes for each 
> connection?

No, it is more of a star configuration.  You just tell the kernel via a
configuration file that any traffic going to X location is to be
encrypted via this key and has X identifier... If you are doing manual
keying anyway.  Anything else gets more complicated.

> 
> I haven't played with OpenBSD in a few years, so this would give me an 
> excuse to load it up again.

I like OpenBSD, just not for my desktop.  In fact, I am running snort on
OpenBSD between my router and firewall.

Shannon

> 
> -ray
> 
> 
> On 28 Feb 2003, Shannon Roddy wrote:
> 
> > Sure, on the OpenBSD site.  It is very simple.  It took me less than a
> > couple days to figure out how to do NAT, IPSec, fw, etc. to connect four
> > remote internal networks so that they could talk to each other.
> > 
> > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PF
> > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#NAT
> > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html
> > 
> > 
> > Shannon
> > 
> > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 16:32, Mat Branyon wrote:
> > > Installing OpenBSD as firewall/router.  Any good tutorials out there?
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Mat Branyon
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> > > http://locke.homeunix.org
> > > 
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