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VPN HOWTO

VPN HOWTO

Matthew D. Wilson

This HOWTO describes how to set up a Virtual Private Network with Linux.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. Why I wrote this HOWTO
1.2. Acknowledgements and Thanks
1.3. Format of this document
1.4. Legal Information
1.4.1. Copyright
1.4.2. Disclaimer
1.4.3. GNU Free Documentation License
1.4.4. PREAMBLE
1.4.5. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
1.4.6. VERBATIM COPYING
1.4.7. COPYING IN QUANTITY
1.4.8. MODIFICATIONS
1.4.9. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
1.4.10. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
1.4.11. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
1.4.12. TRANSLATION
1.4.13. TERMINATION
1.4.14. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
1.4.15. How to use this License for your documents
1.5. Document History
1.6. Related Documents
2. Theory
2.1. What is a VPN?
2.2. But really, what IS a VPN?
2.3. So how does it work?
2.4. SSH and PPP
2.5. Alternative VPN Systems
2.5.1. PPTP
2.5.2. IP Sec
2.5.3. CIPE
3. Server
3.1. Security - keeping people out
3.1.1. Trim your daemons
3.1.2. Don't allow passwords
3.2. User Access - letting people in
3.2.1. Configuring sshd
3.3. Restricting Users
3.3.1. sudo or not sudo
3.4. Networking
3.4.1. The Kernel
3.4.2. Filter Rules
3.4.3. Routing
4. Client
4.1. The Kernel
4.2. Bring up the link
4.3. Scripting
4.4. LRP - Linux Router Project
5. Implementation
5.1. Planning
5.2. Gather the tools
5.2.1. For the Server:
5.2.2. For the Client:
5.3. Server: Build the kernel
5.4. Server: Configure Networking
5.4.1. Configuring the interfaces
5.4.2. Setting routes
5.4.3. Making filter rules
5.4.4. Routing
5.5. Server: Configure pppd
5.5.1. /etc/ppp/
5.5.2. /etc/ppp/options
5.5.3. Avoiding conflicts
5.6. Server: Configure sshd
5.7. Server: Set up user accounts
5.8. Add vpn-users group
5.9. create the vpn-users home directory
5.10. The .ssh directory
5.11. Adding users
5.12. Server: Administration
5.13. Client: Build the kernel
5.14. Client: Configure Networking
5.14.1. Interface
5.14.2. Filter rules
5.14.3. Routing
5.15. Client: Configure pppd
5.16. Client: Configure ssh
5.17. Client: Bring up the connection
5.18. Client: Set the routes
5.19. Client: Scripting
5.19.1. Keeping it running
6. Addenda
6.1. Pitfalls
6.1.1. read: I/O error
6.1.2. SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
6.1.3. IPv4 Forwarding and 2.2 kernels
6.1.4. Routing
6.2. Hardware and Software Requirements
6.2.1. Minimum Hardware Requirements
6.2.2. Software Requirements
  
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