The VPN HOWTO

Arpad Magosanyi <mag@bunuel.tii.matav.hu> v0.2,7 Aug1997

Archived Document Notice: This document has been archived by the LDP because it does not apply to modern Linux systems. It is no longer being actively maintained.

1. Changes

2. Blurb

• 2.1 Copyright
• 2.2 Disclaimer
• 2.3 Disclaimer
• 2.4 Credits
• 2.5 State of this document
• 2.6 Related documentations

3. Introduction

• 3.1 Naming conventions

4. Doing it

• 4.1 Planning
• 4.2 Gathering the tools
• 4.3 Compile and install
• 4.4 Configure the other subsystems
• 4.5 Set up the accounts for the VPN
• 4.6 Generate an ssh key for your master account
• 4.7 Set up automatic ssh login for the slave account
• 4.8 Tighten ssh security on the bastions.
• 4.9 Enable execution of ppp and route for both accounts.
• 4.10 Do the scripting

5. Look at what's happening:

6. Doing it by hand.

• 6.1 Logging in
• 6.2 Firing up ppp
• 6.3 Together the two
• 6.4 Pty redirecting
• 6.5 Is anything on the device?
• 6.6 Setting up the routes

7. Tuning

• 7.1 Configuration tuning
• 7.2 Bandwith vs. cicles

8. Vulnerability analisis

• 8.1 About the ppp over ssh VPN technique