Re: IPSec VPNs: to gif or not to gif
From: Eric Anderson (anderson_at_centtech.com)
Date: 10/22/03
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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 07:34:30 -0500 To: Jim Hatfield <subscriber@insignia.com>
Jim Hatfield wrote:
>I will shortly be replacing a couple of proprietary VPN boxes
>with a FreeBSD solution. Section 10.10 of the Handbook has a
>detailed description of how to do this.
>
>However I remember a lot of discussion about a year ago about
>whether the gif interface was necessary to set up VPNs like
>this or whether it was just a convenience, for "getting the
>routing right". A number of people said that gif was not
>needed but I've never found a step-by-step description of how
>to set up a lan-to-lan VPN without using it.
>
I use gif interfaces for my VPN's, and it works extremely well. The
only other solution I think I would even try, is mpd, but that uses a
much weaker protocol from what I know (PPTP).
It's so easy to use gif, I'm not sure why you wouldn't.
Eric
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