On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 11:32:49PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Hi will, > > Quoth will trillich, > > when a linux wonk says <with real IP's, of course> > > DEV=mytunnel > > OUTSIDE_HERE=321.1.2.3 > > OUTSIDE_THERE=789.9.8.7 > > ip tunnel add $DEV \ > > local $OUTSIDE_HERE \ > > remote $OUTSIDE_THERE \ > > mode gre > > is the tunnel encrypted? if so, how can i confirm > > that? if not, is there a way to do so? (maybe some > > argument needs to be supplied to insmod?) > > While I know very little about this VPN stuff (except port-forwarding > using ssh, but I've posted everything I know about that here anyway), I > would imagine that the easiest way to see if the traffic is encrypted or > not is to sniff it and see if it's sending cleartext. > > Just use `sniffit -F mytunnel -i'. Telnet across your VPN, and select > that socket in the sniffit interactive window. Type something (like > uname -a) in the telnet session and see if you can see anything > recognisable. > > This isn't very scientific, and I'd personally have a hard time telling > the difference between ROT-13'd and IDEA-encrypted traffic, but if you > can't see any cleartext, then it's probably working.
i can't see nothin'. # sniffit -F dave -i Forcing device to dave (user requested)... Make sure you have read the docs carefully. unknown physical layer type 0x30a # ifconfig dave dave Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr D0-21-5A-55-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 inet addr:192.168.1.1 P-t-P:192.168.0.1 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1476 Metric:1 RX packets:4300 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4308 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 when i just # sniffit -i all i see are my existing login/ssh sessions, altho i can still ping 192.168.0.2 (which is past the remote end of the tunnel, which is 192.168.0.1; my end is 192.168.1.1). unfortunately, when running 'sniffit -i' the only options are to check certain ports and certain ip numbers, not specific devices. aaugh! -- things are more like they used to be than they are now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.dontUthink.com/