On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:42:41PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > Any recommendations for free software that allows connecting a host > that has dynamic IP to a VPN (presumably with static IP) that doesn't > require dynamic DNS (aside from, gasp PPTP)? I'm looking forward to > connect my machine at home via a VPN to my office... I'm not sure if > IPSec can do the job as it would normally require static IPs at each > branch... L2TP - no hardware for such.
Have you checked tinc[1] out? (Warning: website's down because of a security breach, Google's cache is okay though.) It should work even with a dynamic IP address on one end (eg: your house). There's even a Google-cached page[2] that backs this up. [1] http://tinc.nl.linux.org/ [2] http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:dOfIvju0u2AJ:mail.nl.linux.org/tinc/2002-05/msg00006.html+tinc+dynamic+IP&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : Free & Open Source Software : When we speak of free http://jijo.free.net.ph : Consultant & Administrator : software we refer to GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE : freedom, not price. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
