HOWTO setup a simple IPSEC tunnel

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 02:46:58PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20070612142932.GA995 at gothic.blackend.org>, Marc Fonvieille writes:
> 
> >Interesting.  One should look how this can be used with
> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ipsec.html
> >(which I suspect to contain wrong/outdated infos).
> 
> I am not going to be a judge on the political correct way to
> use IPSEC, but the stuff in the handbook at the very least needs
> a significant update.
> 
> A general tendency in all examples of how to set up IPsec that
> I found, seems to be that people don't actually understand how
> it works, so the blindly copy examples and set options to
> their default settings etc.
> 

I think the current Handbook IPsec section is "frightening" (too much
information, etc.) for the newbie.  A section based on your howto may be
a better alternative.

-- 
Marc