PS: http://blog.innerewut.de/2005/7/4/openvpn-2-0-on-openbsd

This is looking very promising.

So, to your opinion openvpn used to connect a laptop to the local
network is (much?) more secure than WPA?


Pau

2009/5/31 Pau <[email protected]>:
> Hello,
>
> thanks for the point.
>
> vpnc is working great. Nice. I was fed up of typing a billion times my
> password. I can also download all articles I need from firefox. Simply
> wonderful.
>
> I will look at the other point when I have time (which means that I
> will never look at it, I think)
>
> thanks
>
> Pau
>
> 2009/5/31 Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>:
>> On 2009-05-31, Pau <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> The institute has a web page where they explain that
>>> "Access from hosts located outside: You should use the Cisco VPN
>>> Client software"
>>
>> there's a client for Cisco VPN devices in /usr/ports/security/vpnc,
>> I haven't used it but it should work out ok.
>>
>>> I was meaning whether I can set up openvpn or so for my home wireless
>>> connection, between router and laptops
>>
>> yes, or you can use ssh tunnel-forwarding, or ipsec.
>>
>> it is probably easier to configure ipsec between openbsd systems (using
>> ipsec.conf) than it is to configure the other methods.
>>
>> see isakmpd(8) "PUBLIC KEY AUTHENTICATION" and ipsec.conf(5) "AUTOMATIC
>> KEYING" as a starting point if you would like to try this.
>>
>> apart from writing an ipsec.conf line, in rc.conf.local you will need
>> to start isakmpd and load the ipsec.conf file, and you'll also need to
>> copy the laptop's public key to the router and vice-versa.
>>
>>
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