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In article <65kc8v$e2s$1@news.iinet.net.au>, pfb@nautronix.com.au (Peter F Bradshaw) wrote:
>In article <65ii8n$86p$4@wyrm.its.uow.edu.au>,
>        gpc01@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (Graham Philip Crowe) writes:
>> I am assuming that you mean a private network that can access the internet
>> via a linux masqerading gateway??
>> 
>I think the original question refered to the ability to tunnel encypted 
>packets through the public network. Sites on the public network encypt and
>decrypt IP on the fly and so machines behind the encyption (and firewalls)
>form a virtual network.

>I do not know of a package for Linux or any free software implementing this
>capability. I suspect the difficulties are legal / political rather than
>technical, although the technical challenges are there.
>
>I'm also interested in any answer to this question that may be presented.

Have a look at the HOWTO's, there is a mini-howto there on howto setup a VPN 
using Linux.

http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/VPN
VPN mini-HOWTO, by �rp�d Magos�nyi <mag@bunuel.tii.matav.hu>. How to set up a 
VPN (Virtual Private Network). Updated 3 May 1997.


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