[H-GEN] Smoothwall VPN

[Hilton Travis]

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Hi Conor,

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 14:58, Conor Cunningham wrote:
> 
> Afternoon,
> 
> For the last few hours I've been trying to find informative information 
> regarding VPN'ing to smoothwall boxes together.

http://www.QuarkAV.com has a lot of info - VPN and otherwise - relating
to SmoothWall.

> I haven't had much luck so I thought I'd try HUMBUG.
> 
> What I have found so far is that you need a     LEFT, LEFT SUBNET, LEFT 
> NEXT HOP,
>                                                  RIGHT, RIGHT SUBNET, RIGHT 
> NEXT HOP ,
>                                                  SECRET and a NAME.
> 
> All these things are located on a CGI page on the smoothwall box.

Actually, they are all *entered* via the web page, but they are not
"found" on that same page.  There's a bit of work that you need to do,
for example, to get the correct "x Next Hop" address.  This is outlined
in the docs on my site.

> The secret and the name thing are not a problem.
> 
> I know the following;
> 
> LEFT = My house
> RIGHT= His house.
> 
> And that his page must be exactly that same as mine.
> 
> My network is  192.168.1.0/24   gateway = 192.168.1.1
> Friend          192.168.0.0/24  gateway = 192.168.0.1
> 
> we are both on the same cable network and we can ping each other's external 
> IP addresses.
> 
> What I am trying to ascertain is what bits of information do I put in each 
> box on the smoothwall VPN config page.
> 
> I have tried a number of things with no success, if anyone can help, or 
> provide a link to an informative site, then that would just be rock and roll.

Consider it done.  Do you mean real rock 'n' roll, or modern rock?

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