VPN support (CIPE)

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Originally Posted by tomilius

Cool! :) I myself have been using openVPN--I'm not sure which is better.

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut00.../linux_vpn.txt

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Quote:

Originally Posted by tomilius

Cool! :) I myself have been using openVPN--I'm not sure which is better.

I added CIPE support, because it isn't such a complex application and with some modifications in the Makefile it compiled and run straight away :)

CIPE is nice for static VPN's between subnets, but it requires a seperate UDP port for each tunnel and allocates a different network device. When using routed CIPE, each tunnel also introduces two routes into the kernel routing table.

OpenVPN at the other side is a little more complex, but seems more flexible to me. I looked into it, and it seemed to me it required OpenSSL, which would not really fit in firmware. But since you've got things running, I think it would be nice to integrate it into the firmware and add a menu link in the web-interface (for CIPE a new VPN-menu was introduced; as I was thinking about also integrating a PPTP-server).

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Patch to the 1.9.2.7-5 tree ;)
Also updated a little wrong thingy in the web-interface menu.

bunzip2 the file and in the src/ directory enter:
patch -Np2 < path/to/cipe.diff