Archive for 'Networking'
Configuring IPSec with x509 certificates on OpenBSD
This document will explain howto configure OpenBSD’s IPSec to authenticate via a Certificate Authority and x509 certificates. It is demonstrated with OpenBSD 4.1 and depends upon ipsecctl which first appeared in OpenBSD 3.8.
First you will need to place your CA certificate in /etc/isakmpd/ca.
# ls -al /etc/isakmpd/ca
total 16
drwxr-xr-x […]
Posted: January 17th, 2007 under Networking, OpenBSD, Papers, Security.
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Securing Wireless Communications with IPSec
This paper attempts to explain how to configure racoon/ipsec-tools to encrypt wireless communications.
Our example does not cover how to configure the wireless gateway as an access point, it assumes that there is a configured wireless access point plugged into one of the nics of the gateway. Our example also assumes the client and gateway […]
Posted: January 17th, 2007 under DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Networking, Papers, Security.
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Q: Why do I get “read text: Unknown error: code 60 failed(60)” when trying to PXE boot OpenBSD?
A: You will need to add the following option to /etc/dhcpd.conf on your DHCP server.
next-server 10.0.0.5;
The next-server address should refer to your tftp server.
Posted: January 16th, 2007 under Answers, Networking, OpenBSD.
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