[lug] CIPE questions

[Kevin Fenzi]

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>>>>> "Bear" == Bear Giles <bgiles at coyotesong.com> writes:

Bear> I totally spaced out the BLUG meeting last month, so maybe
Bear> people already have the answers to my CIPE questions.  Or maybe
Bear> there weren't answers at the time, but people were inspired to
Bear> try it out for themselves....

Bear> I want to set up a CIPE network between my home network and my
Bear> colo box.  Sitting between us is an AT&T/Comcast cable modem
Bear> connection.  Has anyone tried to set up CIPE through AT&T?  Have
Bear> they succeeded, or is it filtering CIPE traffic?

I haven't setup a CIPE tunnel thru a cable modem, but I wouldn't think
it would blocked. With CIPE you can use any port you like, and they
are generic UDP packets. You should be able to find some port they
aren't blocking. ;) 

Bear> Secondly, I want to send X traffic through the CIPE
Bear> connection. Again, have people succeeded?  Have they noticed
Bear> latency problems?

Works fine. The latency will of course depend on your connection
between the two machines.

Bear> I know about SSH tunnels, but I would prefer to set up a real
Bear> VPN. I would actually prefer to use IPv6 with IPSEC (using
Bear> OpenBSD gateways on both ends), but I don't think I have IPv6
Bear> connectivity.  And FreeS/WAN is just too non-standard.

yeah, FreeS/WAN is a pain to setup. 
CIPE is easy and works quite well. 

Almost all the distros have CIPE included now. 
With RedHat/KRUD you can even use the 'redhat-configure-network' to
setup a CIPE connection. 

Bear> Bear

kevin

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