Unfortunately, Comcast has another restriction for residential customers on their networks - no VPNs! :-( Larry > > I am planning on running a Virtual Private Network from my Fedora > firewall out to a UML virtual colo (running RH9) at another site. > That site will be the place I present services to the world; > httpd, ssh, sftp, smtp. This is to comply with the "no servers" > and dynamic ip restrictions on my Comcast connection to the net; > if my firewall always drives an outbound connection to the > colocation site, I am not worried about changes of ip address, > and I am not opening any inbound ports. > > There are a number of options for the VPN - the most attractive > are cipe ( http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html ) > and FreeSwan ( http://www.freeswan.org/ ), though I am told that > one can do all this through an ssh tunnel. I would rather have > simple and secure than super-duper; I have plenty of bandwidth, > and will send outbound http and smtp from the firewall, so the > main bandwidth user will be incoming spam/b/b/b/b mail. > > Anyone have some experiences to share about setting up VPN? Is > there anything about either cipe or FreeSwan that is likely to > break with FC1 or FC2? > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom keithl@xxxxxxxx Voice (503)-520-1993 > KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" > Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
