Hello,

I'm looking for a router, VPN server box. The soekris hardware[] seems
to be exactly what I want. Seems it would work fine even withoug the
vpn card. Initial googling showed me a vast amount of working *bsd
installations but no clear answer on the linux part.

I'd rather have debian on this box as I'm more used to the OS and it's
configuration quirks (some are always there ).

Is the mentioned vpn card[1] ready to use in the stock debian kernel,
and (this is something in found in several openbsd mailing lists) will
openssl/gnutls use it's capabilities or would that be lost money?

thanks for your input


[0] http://www.soekris.com/index.htm
[1] http://www.soekris.com/vpn1401.htm
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On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:31:06AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for a router, VPN server box. The soekris hardware[] seems
> to be exactly what I want. Seems it would work fine even withoug the
> vpn card. Initial googling showed me a vast amount of working *bsd
> installations but no clear answer on the linux part.
>
> I'd rather have debian on this box as I'm more used to the OS and it's
> configuration quirks (some are always there ).
>
> Is the mentioned vpn card[1] ready to use in the stock debian kernel,
> and (this is something in found in several openbsd mailing lists) will
> openssl/gnutls use it's capabilities or would that be lost money?
>
> thanks for your input
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2007/9/29, Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net>:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:31:06AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is the mentioned vpn card[1] ready to use in the stock debian kernel,
> > and (this is something in found in several openbsd mailing lists) will
> > openssl/gnutls use it's capabilities or would that be lost money?
> >
> > thanks for your input
> >
> > [1] http://www.soekris.com/vpn1401.htm
>
> http://pyramid.metrix.net/trac/wiki/...AskedQuestions

Interesting distribution, but neither the soekris net5501 nor any of
the vpn cards are mentioned there.

Also the task of this distribution isn't in any way related to what
I'd like to build. I'm not working on a router, or borderline box for
a network.

Which of the FAQ point should be related to my questions?

thanks
martin
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My ISP does not provide DHCP, so I configured network manually, all data I
got from windows by ipconfig /all
command.

I left http proxy field empty, my LAN uses http proxy but internet
connection does not so I supposed I do not need it.

However during installation, "configuring APT - scanning the mirror" phase
does not work out, whatever mirror I choose.

My internet is through pppoe, but at no point netinstall asks
login and parol. So apparently I should install just base system, then
configure pppoe and then go on with apt-get.

Here I found old tutorial for Sarge, according to which pppoeconfig should
be in the base system:
http://www.debiantutorials.org/content/view/6/234/

However there is no pppoeconfig in my base system!

I would appreciate if someone could give me a hint what to do...

(x-posted to http://www.debian.org/node/10759)


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Apologies,

what I meant to say was I'm not building a standard router. I can't go
with distros like pebble, shorewall or ipcop. They don't have package
management as debian has it or upgrade mechanisms...

The routing i'm trying to achieve will be more like streamlined
multiplexing of traffic (don't have the correct terminology yet, it
will be something that audits traffic and logs it to different target,
imho quite specialized so I need to have a full distro as I probably
need to create some interfaces for easy maintenance, nagios, snmp,
webinterface for configuration etc....)

2007/9/29, Martin Marcher <martin@marcher.name>:
> 2007/9/29, Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net>:
> > On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:31:06AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Is the mentioned vpn card[1] ready to use in the stock debian kernel,
> > > and (this is something in found in several openbsd mailing lists) will
> > > openssl/gnutls use it's capabilities or would that be lost money?
> > >
> > > thanks for your input
> > >
> > > [1] http://www.soekris.com/vpn1401.htm
> >
> > http://pyramid.metrix.net/trac/wiki/...AskedQuestions
>
> Interesting distribution, but neither the soekris net5501 nor any of
> the vpn cards are mentioned there.
>
> Also the task of this distribution isn't in any way related to what
> I'd like to build. I'm not working on a router, or borderline box for
> a network.
>
> Which of the FAQ point should be related to my questions?
>
> thanks
> martin
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Aleksei wrote the following on 30.09.2007 14:12

<<-snip->>

> My internet is through pppoe, but at no point netinstall asks
> login and parol. So apparently I should install just base system, then
> configure pppoe and then go on with apt-get.

You need to enter:
install modules=ppp-udeb

at the boot prompt (that´s the first screen)


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