[ale] VPN's

[tynor at outside.atlanta.twr.com (Steve Tynor)]

Keith R. Watson wrote:

| At 10:15 AM 5/25/99 -0400, you wrote:
| >I'm sending this in frustration, hoping that someone on the list has had 
| >a similar experience and has found a working solution.
| >
| >We're trying to set up a VPN between our Atlanta, Austin and Canadian
| >offices. Each office is running a private 10.0.1.* network, with a Linux
| >2.0.36 masquerading firewall.
| >
| >We've tried the following: CIPE 1.0.1, CIPE 1.3pre1, VPS 2.0, and even a
| >homebrewed script running ppp over ssh (similar to what VPS is doing).
| >
| 
| --- snip - stuff deleted
| 
| Steve,
| 
|    How are you connecting to your ISP from the office in Atlanta and the
| office in Austin?

Both are ppp over 64k ISDN. (the canadian office is on a cable modem).
We've hypothesized that there's some sort of bandwidth related problem,
but can't think of any reason why that would be.

Steve