Re: ping of death attacks

2000-09-14 Thread Art Sackett
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:39:41PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:13:07PM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote: > > Maybe he means ping floods? Pings of death usually will crash a > > box after a few packets hit it. As you said Debian is good about > > those kinds of things. > >

Re: ping of death attacks

2000-09-14 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:13:07PM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote: > Maybe he means ping floods? Pings of death usually will crash a > box after a few packets hit it. As you said Debian is good about > those kinds of things. Are these things just malformed packets / frames sent to some machine or

Re: ping of death attacks

2000-09-14 Thread Art Sackett
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:39:41PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:13:07PM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote: > > Maybe he means ping floods? Pings of death usually will crash a > > box after a few packets hit it. As you said Debian is good about > > those kinds of things. >

Re: ping of death attacks

2000-09-14 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:13:07PM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote: > Maybe he means ping floods? Pings of death usually will crash a > box after a few packets hit it. As you said Debian is good about > those kinds of things. Are these things just malformed packets / frames sent to some machine or

Re: Qmail and Debian

2000-09-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:10:30PM -0600, Art Sackett wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:19:48AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > Huh? Why would you need to deinstall at, mailx, logrotate and mail > > readers in the first place? > > Well, you wouldn't *need* to, strictly speaking, but if y

Re: VPN recomendations

2000-09-14 Thread Kevin Conover
Hi Kim, there's an article at unixreview on vtun for virtual tunnels. There's a vtun package in unstable. I haven't used it. Will this do what you want? http://www.unixreview.com/administration/articles/000815sec.shtml On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Kim O wrote: > was just wondering what the best way i

Re: VPN recomendations

2000-09-14 Thread Clint Adams
> was just wondering what the best way is to do VPN between linux servers in > different places to establish a small private network over public > infrastructure. packages,software or howtos appreciated. pipsecd

Re: Qmail and Debian

2000-09-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:10:30PM -0600, Art Sackett wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:19:48AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > Huh? Why would you need to deinstall at, mailx, logrotate and mail > > readers in the first place? > > Well, you wouldn't *need* to, strictly speaking, but if

Re: VPN recomendations

2000-09-14 Thread Kevin Conover
Hi Kim, there's an article at unixreview on vtun for virtual tunnels. There's a vtun package in unstable. I haven't used it. Will this do what you want? http://www.unixreview.com/administration/articles/000815sec.shtml On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Kim O wrote: > was just wondering what the best way

RE: VPN recomendations

2000-09-14 Thread I. Forbes
Hello Werner No it is not that simple. Tunnelv counts its own tunnels and assigns tap devices accordingly, but it insists on starting with "tap0", even when that device is already being used by diald. Diald should also work with multiple instances on the same server. I assume it can also sor

Re: VPN recomendations

2000-09-14 Thread Clint Adams
> was just wondering what the best way is to do VPN between linux servers in > different places to establish a small private network over public > infrastructure. packages,software or howtos appreciated. pipsecd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

RE: VPN recomendations

2000-09-14 Thread Werner Fleck
May be it's a problem of diald -- I have a production system with three simultaneous tunnel vision vpns running on tap0, tap1 and tap2. Werner > -Original Message- > From: I. Forbes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 12:54 PM > To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org >

RE: VPN recomendations

2000-09-14 Thread I. Forbes
Hello All Tunnelv is a userland package that works via the ethertap device. It is quite neat and totally secure. But it has a bug that conflicts with diald. Diald will also use the ethertap device if the kernel supports it. The bug is that both packages insist on using the first device "tap

RE: VPN recomendations

2000-09-14 Thread I. Forbes
Hello Werner No it is not that simple. Tunnelv counts its own tunnels and assigns tap devices accordingly, but it insists on starting with "tap0", even when that device is already being used by diald. Diald should also work with multiple instances on the same server. I assume it can also so

RE: VPN recomendations

2000-09-14 Thread Werner Fleck
May be it's a problem of diald -- I have a production system with three simultaneous tunnel vision vpns running on tap0, tap1 and tap2. Werner > -Original Message- > From: I. Forbes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 12:54 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject

RE: VPN recomendations

2000-09-14 Thread I. Forbes
Hello All Tunnelv is a userland package that works via the ethertap device. It is quite neat and totally secure. But it has a bug that conflicts with diald. Diald will also use the ethertap device if the kernel supports it. The bug is that both packages insist on using the first device "ta

RE: VPN recomendations

2000-09-14 Thread Werner Fleck
I am using Tunnel Vision (http://www.worldvisions.ca/tunnelv/) for 18 months now. It is easy to configure and it works very reliable. And there is a debian package "tunnelv". Werner > -Original Message- > From: Kim O [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 7:42 AM >

Re: VPN recomendations

2000-09-14 Thread Kain
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:58:15PM -0700, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:42:26AM -0400, Kim O wrote: > > was just wondering what the best way is to do VPN between linux servers in > > different places to establish a small private network over public > > infrastructure. packages,

RE: VPN recomendations

2000-09-14 Thread Werner Fleck
I am using Tunnel Vision (http://www.worldvisions.ca/tunnelv/) for 18 months now. It is easy to configure and it works very reliable. And there is a debian package "tunnelv". Werner > -Original Message- > From: Kim O [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 7:42 AM

Re: VPN recomendations

2000-09-14 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:42:26AM -0400, Kim O wrote: > was just wondering what the best way is to do VPN between linux servers in > different places to establish a small private network over public > infrastructure. packages,software or howtos appreciated. CIPE - packaged, is a kernel patch

VPN recomendations

2000-09-14 Thread Kim O
was just wondering what the best way is to do VPN between linux servers in different places to establish a small private network over public infrastructure. packages,software or howtos appreciated. thanks Kim