At Wednesday, 28/11/2001 12:14 PM (+1100), George Vieira wrote:
>You can't route internal IPs over the internet... you MUST use a tunnel or
>some kind...

Well, that depends.  From his config, both external IPs were on the same subnet so the 
ISPs router probably could be bypassed using a static route.

We need to know more about the public side of the network.

>You could use vpnd which uses blowfish I think... haven't used it much
>before but I have used it..

The only VPN solution I would recommend would be IPSec - ie FreeS/Wan.  Others have a 
number of significant holes.

Matt



>thanks,
>George Vieira
>Systems Manager
>Citadel Computer Systems P/L
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: DaZZa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2001 12:12 PM
>To: Lyle Chapman
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Network To Network
>
>
>On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Lyle Chapman wrote:
>
>> To whomever can help.
>>
>> I want to connect 2 internal networks together across the internet using
>> ipchains from 2 Linux routers. Is it possible to do this and have it
>> tranparent to the internal networks.
>>
>> I have tried everything I can think of and have read the HOWTO but cannot
>> get through. If I am inside network 1 I get as far as the router at
>> network 2 but cannot see or ping their internal network.
>>
>> PLEASE HELP - As I am trying to learn Linux but unfortunately
>> documentation is not aimed at the newbie sometimes!!!
>
>As far as I know, you can't do this with just ipchains - and if you could,
>it'd be hideously insecure. I could be wrong about the first statement.
>I'm not wrong about the second.
>
>You can, however, do it via FreeS/WAN. Check out http://www.freeswan.org
>for details and software.
>
>Basically, you need to run a secure VPN encrypted across the internet. If
>you don't do this, your commercial data is toast - it can be collected by
>anyone with enough nouse to run a sniffer or data capture device on your
>networks. Your network can also be compromised from outside much more
>easily.
>
>DaZZa
>
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