Re: [gnome-network]Re: gnome-network VPN client

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 15:32, Paul Coates wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 13:24, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 11:36, Paul Coates wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 23:17, Carlos Morgado wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:29:48, Paul Coates wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I always considered VPN to be similar to dialup, both provide a new
> > > > > network interface with an IP address on the remote network, and you need
> > > > > to setup your routing to play nice with the other network interfaces.
> > > > 
> > > > iirc frees/wan doesn't provide a network device.
> > > 
> > > VPN using PPTP and IPSec are two different animals, I should have said
> > > VPN using PPTP. PPTP uses PPP and creates new interfaces, from what I
> > > can tell IPSec does it's own thing on top of IP.
> > > 
> > hmm, does this mean we might have to provide a VPN/PPTP setup in GST and
> > a IPSEC setup in gnome-network? How does IPSEC work? Does it still need
> > root access?
> 
> The best place for both is the same place you configure your network
> interfaces, in gnome-setup-tools. I think users would expect to find
> them together in the same client program as their network setup.
> 
ok, I was just thinking it might be some user-oriented tool (like
creating a ssh tunnel, for instance).

cheers