[ale] IPSec question

Tony Carter tcarter at entrusion.com
Tue Jul 20 13:37:54 EDT 2004


Christopher,
I'm fighting some of the same IPSEC fires you may encounter.. Here are  
a few links I've found helpful

http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/networking/ipsec-howto/en/ 
x247.html#AEN378
http://www.kame.net/racoon/
http://www.ipsec-howto.org/x247.html

-Tony

On Jul 20, 2004, at 1:28 PM, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> The first thing I need to do is configure IPSec on my Fedora Core 2
> server.  Is there an easy way to do this?  Good website with tutorial?
>
> On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 12:22, Geoffrey wrote:
>> Stephan Uphoff wrote:
>>> Geoffrey wrote:
>>>
>>>> Because they are supporting the service.  Again, you're at their  
>>>> mercy.
>>>>  Most companies don't permit just anyone vpn type connectivity.   
>>>> Since
>>>> you don't 'manage' the firewall in question, you'll have to work  
>>>> with
>>>> each company to get ipsec connectivity.
>>>
>>>
>>> But you can tunnel over HTTP/DNS/SMTP/ICMP....... any protocol };-)
>>>
>>> You can easily leak informations through firewalls and even gateways
>>> if you control machines on both sides.
>>
>> You might want to concern yourself with company policies in this area.
>> I'll have to admit, my suggestions were assuming you were going to do
>> things according to existing policies...
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