Re: apt-get upgrade and kernel images

2004-03-02 Thread Riku Valli
- Original Message - From: Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 8:33 PM Subject: Re: apt-get upgrade and kernel images On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:42:16AM -0800, Andris Kalnozols wrote: I am running Debian testing and seem to recall

Re: apt-get upgrade and kernel images

2004-03-02 Thread Mattias Eriksson
I think I recall something about debian not upgrading kernel-images except if the user asks for it explicitly. I have been using debian for many years and I can't recall that I ever have gotten an kernel upgrade if I haven't asked for it. Sometimes I had installed a kernel-2.4-386 kernel that was

Re: apt-get upgrade and kernel images

2004-03-02 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:18:15AM +0200, Riku Valli wrote: Yes, but for me was quite confusing that at first installation kernel isnot a package. AFAIK it will be, starting with sarge. Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216

Re: apt-get upgrade and kernel images

2004-03-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:28:44AM +0100, Mattias Eriksson wrote: I think I recall something about debian not upgrading kernel-images except if the user asks for it explicitly. Not unless you explicitly put them on hold (which you are of course free to do). I have been using debian for many

Re: apt-get upgrade and kernel images

2004-03-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:18:15AM +0200, Riku Valli wrote: Yes, but for me was quite confusing that at first installation kernel isnot a package. So if you install your Debian with boot floppies 2.4.18-bf2.4 you never get update for this kernel. You must apt-get install

Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Jaroslaw Tabor
Hi all! I know that this list isn't the best place to ask, but I'm reding this list for years. I hope You will forgive me :) I'm looking for good linux (debian of course) based solution for VPN connecting about 100 LANs. The solution should be stable, easy for implementation and easy for

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread I.R. van Dongen
Jaroslaw Tabor wrote: Hi all! I know that this list isn't the best place to ask, but I'm reding this list for years. I hope You will forgive me :) I'm looking for good linux (debian of course) based solution for VPN connecting about 100 LANs. The solution should be stable, easy for

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 21:41:34 +0100, Jaroslaw Tabor wrote: I've reviewed freeswan and OE feauture. This looks nice, but I'm afraid about security. If you're looking for a VPN solution, by all means look at FreeS/WAN (or its likely successor, OpenSWAN). Just forget about OE. OE isn't about

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Jacques Normand
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:08:22PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 21:41:34 +0100, Jaroslaw Tabor wrote: I've reviewed freeswan and OE feauture. This looks nice, but I'm afraid about security. If you're looking for a VPN solution, by all means look at FreeS/WAN

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:00:58PM +0100, I.R. van Dongen wrote: You might want to check tinc (http://tinc.nl.linux.org) I strongly recommend *not* to use tinc. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/249142 illustrates that the authors didn't have enough expertise to build a secure tool 2 years

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread I.R. van Dongen
Richard Atterer wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:00:58PM +0100, I.R. van Dongen wrote: You might want to check tinc (http://tinc.nl.linux.org) I strongly recommend *not* to use tinc. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/249142 illustrates that the authors didn't have enough expertise

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:18:32AM +0100, I.R. van Dongen wrote: Richard Atterer wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:00:58PM +0100, I.R. van Dongen wrote: You might want to check tinc (http://tinc.nl.linux.org) I strongly recommend *not* to use tinc.

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:18:32AM +0100, I.R. van Dongen wrote: Richard Atterer wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:00:58PM +0100, I.R. van Dongen wrote: You might want to check tinc (http://tinc.nl.linux.org) I strongly recommend *not* to use tinc.

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:37:52PM -0600, Jacques Normand wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:08:22PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: If you're looking for a VPN solution, by all means look at FreeS/WAN (or its likely successor, OpenSWAN). Just forget about OE. OE isn't about the type of

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread I.R. van Dongen
Jan Minar wrote: IMHO, the key words in Richard's posting are ``[not] enough expertise'', and ``a track record''. The idea that the [conceptual] flaws will be fixed in The Next Release [TM], although quite common amongst the people, is a mere instance of a proof by wishful thinking. Clueless

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I'm personally in favour of an IPsec VPN using openbsd or linux 2.6. For a distributed Installation with up to 100 sites, I strongly recommend to go with a small SOHO Router appliance. Because they are easy to replace with UPS delivery, they are more

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:33:17AM +0100, I.R. van Dongen wrote: Jan Minar wrote: IMHO, the key words in Richard's posting are ``[not] enough expertise'', and ``a track record''. The idea that the [conceptual] flaws will be fixed in The Next Release [TM], although quite common amongst the

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:25:46 +0100, Milan P. Stanic wrote: FreeS/WAN is orphaned upstream. OpenSWAN is based on FreeS/WAN and as such it does not work with 2.6. For Kernel's 2.6.0 and higher, Openswan uses the built in IPsec support. Only the userland component of Openswan is required to

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
think an acceptable user-land alternative might be openvpn. I would I don't think openvpn would easily handle such large number of connections, it would be also a configuration nightmare. tinc was designed to handle such scenario, but I wouldn't use anything user-land for ~100 lans, no metter

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
FreeS/WAN is orphaned upstream. OpenSWAN is based on FreeS/WAN and as such it does not work with 2.6. That is untrue. 1.x branch works with 2.4.x kernels, 2.x branch works with 2.6.x -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To

Re: apt-get upgrade and kernel images

2004-03-02 Thread Riku Valli
- Original Message - From: Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-security@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 8:33 PM Subject: Re: apt-get upgrade and kernel images On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:42:16AM -0800, Andris Kalnozols wrote: I am running Debian testing and

Re: apt-get upgrade and kernel images

2004-03-02 Thread Mattias Eriksson
I think I recall something about debian not upgrading kernel-images except if the user asks for it explicitly. I have been using debian for many years and I can't recall that I ever have gotten an kernel upgrade if I haven't asked for it. Sometimes I had installed a kernel-2.4-386 kernel that was

Re: apt-get upgrade and kernel images

2004-03-02 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:18:15AM +0200, Riku Valli wrote: Yes, but for me was quite confusing that at first installation kernel isnot a package. AFAIK it will be, starting with sarge. Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216

Re: apt-get upgrade and kernel images

2004-03-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:28:44AM +0100, Mattias Eriksson wrote: I think I recall something about debian not upgrading kernel-images except if the user asks for it explicitly. Not unless you explicitly put them on hold (which you are of course free to do). I have been using debian for many

Re: apt-get upgrade and kernel images

2004-03-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:18:15AM +0200, Riku Valli wrote: Yes, but for me was quite confusing that at first installation kernel isnot a package. So if you install your Debian with boot floppies 2.4.18-bf2.4 you never get update for this kernel. You must apt-get install

Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Jaroslaw Tabor
Hi all! I know that this list isn't the best place to ask, but I'm reding this list for years. I hope You will forgive me :) I'm looking for good linux (debian of course) based solution for VPN connecting about 100 LANs. The solution should be stable, easy for implementation and easy for

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread I.R. van Dongen
Jaroslaw Tabor wrote: Hi all! I know that this list isn't the best place to ask, but I'm reding this list for years. I hope You will forgive me :) I'm looking for good linux (debian of course) based solution for VPN connecting about 100 LANs. The solution should be stable, easy for

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 21:41:34 +0100, Jaroslaw Tabor wrote: I've reviewed freeswan and OE feauture. This looks nice, but I'm afraid about security. If you're looking for a VPN solution, by all means look at FreeS/WAN (or its likely successor, OpenSWAN). Just forget about OE. OE isn't about

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Jacques Normand
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:08:22PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 21:41:34 +0100, Jaroslaw Tabor wrote: I've reviewed freeswan and OE feauture. This looks nice, but I'm afraid about security. If you're looking for a VPN solution, by all means look at FreeS/WAN

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:00:58PM +0100, I.R. van Dongen wrote: You might want to check tinc (http://tinc.nl.linux.org) I strongly recommend *not* to use tinc. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/249142 illustrates that the authors didn't have enough expertise to build a secure tool 2 years

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread I.R. van Dongen
Richard Atterer wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:00:58PM +0100, I.R. van Dongen wrote: You might want to check tinc (http://tinc.nl.linux.org) I strongly recommend *not* to use tinc. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/249142 illustrates that the authors didn't have enough

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:18:32AM +0100, I.R. van Dongen wrote: Richard Atterer wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:00:58PM +0100, I.R. van Dongen wrote: You might want to check tinc (http://tinc.nl.linux.org) I strongly recommend *not* to use tinc.

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:18:32AM +0100, I.R. van Dongen wrote: Richard Atterer wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:00:58PM +0100, I.R. van Dongen wrote: You might want to check tinc (http://tinc.nl.linux.org) I strongly recommend *not* to use tinc.

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:37:52PM -0600, Jacques Normand wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:08:22PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: If you're looking for a VPN solution, by all means look at FreeS/WAN (or its likely successor, OpenSWAN). Just forget about OE. OE isn't about the type of

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread I.R. van Dongen
Jan Minar wrote: IMHO, the key words in Richard's posting are ``[not] enough expertise'', and ``a track record''. The idea that the [conceptual] flaws will be fixed in The Next Release [TM], although quite common amongst the people, is a mere instance of a proof by wishful thinking. Clueless

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I'm personally in favour of an IPsec VPN using openbsd or linux 2.6. For a distributed Installation with up to 100 sites, I strongly recommend to go with a small SOHO Router appliance. Because they are easy to replace with UPS delivery, they are more