[plug] VPNs and stuff

[Cameron Patrick]

Simon Scott wrote:

> We're trying to setup a VPN between my house and my mate's house via
> 2 ADSL links. 

A few people here have mentioned CIPE which I've never used but
apparently has a number of security flaws:

http://www.mit.edu:8008/bloom-picayune/crypto/14238

I'm using Open VPN (http://openvpn.sf.net/) which I found really easy
to set up.  Debian packages exist, dunno about other distributions.
It can cope with NAT and dynamic IPs on both ends so long as one end
has a host name that points to it (dyndns-style).

Cameron.