On 2000-03-02, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@meteng.on.ca> wrote:
> I've got a customer who wants to set up a VPN with Linux and
> IPSec. Part of the setup requires having VPN access to a Novell
> Netware server which runs on IPX only. Is it possible with the
> standard kernel + IPSec (freeswan) patches to have IPX tunnel
> over the IPSec VPN as well?
<scratches head> Did you ask this question a couple of weeks ago? ;)
AFAIK IPsec is an IP-only thing. Therefore no... unless you use some form
of IPX-in-IP encapsulation first, and then send those encapsulated packets
over IPsec.
> If this isn't currently possible, are there any projects to
> make it a reality at all? Would a 2.3 kernel help at all?
Well... the CIPE project may do what you want. The standard (and only
supported?) version does just encapsulated/encrypted IP. But, there was a
branch some time ago that could encapsulate/encrypt arbitrary Ethernet
frames -- therefore IP, Appletalk, IPX, etc. I don't know how hard it
would be to rev up those changes -- you may be able to do it, or throw beer
or $$$ at the developers.
CIPE lives at:
http://sites.inka.de/~bigred/devel/cipe.html
We have an archive of the CIPE mailing list at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cipe&r=1&w=2
HTH,
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