I'm also trying to understand this stuff. Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong:
J. Scott Olsson wrote: (...) > (1) Where do group passwords come from (for the field "IPSec secret" in > the vnc .conf files)? I saw one for group UMD at > http://www.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/linux/vpnc.txt , which seems to work > fine, but I think I need another one for UMD-Wireless? this one[1] and this one[2] (from OIT itself) seem helpful [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01716.html [2] http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/documents/4/4341/ReadMe.txt > (2) What is UMD-Wireless? > afaik UMD-Wireless is the same thing as UMD-TunnelAll. UMD-TunnelAll is used to tunnel all your connections thru the UMD vpn, as opposed to UMD, which is used to tunnel only those connection that go to umd.edu server. I don't know why they would need UMD when they have UND-TunnelAll. So if you want to check your emails on gmail via an unsecured wireless connection, you wanna rather use UMD-TunnelAll. If you want to check you umd emails with the same setup, UMD (or UMD-TunnelAll) will do it. > (3) After I start vpnc, it seems to be happy, and ifconfig reports a new > device tun0. What do I do then? (I did mention these were dumb questions). > I go to this link[3] and if it shows my ip as 128.8.x.x, it's all good. [3] http://whatismyip.org/ Hope this helps, Mehmet.
