Help - Dialup to Dialup VPN

[Jon Carnes]

The easiest way to handle that would be to use a dynamic DNS server
somewhere.  Assuming that this is just for fun and not an actual business
need - there are free DDNS's available via the web.  You can also pay for
the service.  It's fairly inexpensive.

When you dial up to the net, your box checks in with the DDNS and tells it
the current address.  If you were using tzo.com as your DDNS service then
your box might go by the dns name of: mybox.ontheroad.tzo.com.  The other
box would dial in to the internet and find yours by sending a dns query for
the box mybox.ontheroad.tzo.com.  This would always return your current ip
address - whatever it might be.

Once you have a known endpoint, then the other machine can always find it.
The machine running DDNS would have to be the server, the other would be a
client.  Under Unix/Linux you could use any number of ways to connect them.
PopTop is one of the most popular.  Secure Shell would work great.

An alternative would be to use a newsgroup somewhere that is fairly reliable
and to post the connection information.  That would be tough to automate,
but is doable.

Have fun - Jon Carnes
----- Original Message -----
From: "nithin rajan" <nithinr at REDIFFMAIL.COM>
To: <VPN at SECURITYFOCUS.COM>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 7:36 AM
Subject: Help


> Is it possible to set up a VPN (using UNIX SSH or any other)with dial up
connections at both ends?.
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