Re: SUN VPN for 10.x.x.x Network

From: Darren Moffat (Darren.Moffat@Sun.COM)
Date: 06/12/02 

Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:21:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Darren Moffat <Darren.Moffat@Sun.COM>
To: focus-sun@securityfocus.com, a_spicer@bellsouth.net

>SUN VPN for 10.x.x.x Network Tunneling
>----------
>I need to tunnel part of 10.x.x.x address space over the Internet between
>two Sparc boxes. I see a lot of Linux free VPN stuff, but not Sun/Sparc.
>The two SunOS: SunOS hostname 5.8 Generic_108528-12 sun4u sparc
>SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine, are geographically seperated ... and on
>different connections to the same ISP backbone. I need to ping and SNMP from
>one to the other for testing and monitoring.

Since you are using Solaris 8 you can use IPsec to create the
secure link. In Solaris 8 IPsec only supports pre-shared secret keys,
from Solaris 9 onwards IKE is supported.

IPsec Overview:

http://docs.sun.com/?q=IPsec&p=/doc/806-0916/6ja8539cd&a=view

Enabling VPNs

http://docs.sun.com/?p=/doc/806-0916/6ja8539cl&a=view 

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Darren J Moffat