On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > 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 >
Yup, i use tinc _in production_. It's OPENSSL based and totally _userspace_, meaning no need to patch the kernel and stuff. There's a windows port as well i believe. -- 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
