OK, I'll admit, I'm new to VPNs (on linux anyways). I am fortunate to be allowed to run a server in my office which has a single IP address on eth0, and I also have a cable modem connection at home. So, what I was thinking was VPN between the office and home (home has 2 subnets 192.168.0/24 for PC's on the LAN, and 192.168.100/24).
My initial idea was to bind a number (172.16.16.16 for instance) to eth0:1 on the office server, and set-up up a PSK'd freeswan link between home and the office (stating 192.168/16 as the home addresses, getting confused yet?) but as you can imagine I ran into a few problems with this, the least of which is that my cable modem is DHCP'd and I'm specifying it's IP address in both ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets. Does anyone have an idiots guide on net-to-host VPNing that will allow the net side to have a dynamic IP? any advice is considered help, I'm trying to learn as much as I can about VPNs with freeswan. Thanks, Ian PS for the curious, I was setting the office's private subnet as being 172.16.16.16/32 which is probably very very silly. ________________________________________________________________________ Scottish Enterprise Network http://www.scottish-enterprise.com Headquarters Address & Contact Numbers 150 Broomielaw 5 Atlantic Quay Glasgow G2 8LU. Tel: +44 (0) 141 248 2700. Fax: +44 (0)141 221 3217 This message is sent in confidence for the addressee only. It may contain legally privileged information. The contents are not to be disclosed to anyone other than the addressee. Unauthorised recipients are requested to preserve this confidentiality and to advise the sender immediately of any error in transmission. _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
