[ILUG] RE: Setting up a VPN using CIPE

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, David Crozier wrote:

> Where do I start?  Have you any good links to how tos or even examples of
> ones that have been set up.

i'll presume you are using redhat...

get the latest cipe from sourceforge. build the RPM from it (rpm -tb
<cipetarball>, although their rpm spec file tends to be broken and
needs massaging to get it work usually.

(if you have no qualms about installing from a tarball, then do that)

you must have the kernel-headers package installed so that it can
build the cipe kernel module.

install cipe

configure cipe:

- copy the example if{up,down}-cipcb to
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, aswell as the example ifcfg-cipcb0
file.

- edit the ifcfg-cipcb0 file. it should be fairly self evident.

PEER is the real or carrier IP:port of the remote system.

IPADDR and PTPADDR are the local and remote IP's of the VPN link.

Then you need an /etc/cipe/options.cipcb0, it at a minimum should
contain a key, but options like maxerr and ping can be useful too. eg:

key af3dc2e92a198130dcd65cceab627edd
maxerr -1

The key you can generate with "ps auxw | md5sum"

that's about it...

--paulj

> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, David Crozier wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > Has anyone any experience of setting up a VPN using CIPE??
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>
> yep... what can we attempt to help you with?
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> >
> > Dave
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