tinc and ipcop

[Ralf Petry]

hy,
more or less just a general question: i am running a suse linux 8.1 as
a server and ipcop 1.2 (and at another place ipcop 1.4) as
firewall/router.
i would like to achieve the following: allow a certain company (with
windows server and clients) to connect
to my network via vpn. where would i set up tinc? on the server or on the
firewall? the server has the module tun installed, the firewall hasn't -
and i would not like to work on the firewalls kernel.
thanks in advance.
regards, ralf.

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[Guus Sliepen]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 02:11:38PM +0100, Ralf Petry wrote:

> more or less just a general question: i am running a suse linux 8.1 as
> a server and ipcop 1.2 (and at another place ipcop 1.4) as
> firewall/router.
> i would like to achieve the following: allow a certain company (with
> windows server and clients) to connect
> to my network via vpn. where would i set up tinc? on the server or on the
> firewall? the server has the module tun installed, the firewall hasn't -
> and i would not like to work on the firewalls kernel.

It's your network, you can choose whereever you want to run tinc. As
long as you make sure everything is routed correctly. If the firewall
has the ethertap module, tinc can use that as well.

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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
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[ralf.petry]

hy,
sorry, if the format of the mail looks strange, i am using a
webmail-interface...

thanks for the info; here i will have to tell a lack of experience from my
side...
my ipcop-box doesn't show the tun or ethertap device (with modinfo tun or
modinfo ethertap) and my "normal" server shows it.
so, sorry for asking one more time: is it possible to install and run tinc
on my server (i have found a document "running tinc from behind a masq
firewall..."), although this server isn't the firewall itself and eth0 only
has an adress from the local network-range?

thanks again in advance...
best regards, ralf.

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[Guus Sliepen]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 03:14:02PM +0100, ralf.petry wrote:

> so, sorry for asking one more time: is it possible to install and run tinc
> on my server (i have found a document "running tinc from behind a masq
> firewall..."), although this server isn't the firewall itself and eth0 only
> has an adress from the local network-range?

I'll have to answer one more time: yes, as long as you make sure
everything is routed correctly.

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