In this case, why not use pptp? It does transport data over gre and
offers a decent authentication using mschap2. If needed, one can also
add mppe as encryption.
I know there are theoreticians that state that it may be mathematical
vulnerable because of "shortcut" implementations done by MS, but still
no exploit is out in the wild.
And the out-phasing of it in favor of strong cryptographic solutions
actually lessens the pressure on really creating an usable exploit.
On the other hand, ham radio networks are not an interesting target for
potential crackers.
On 04.12.2020 21:52, pete M via 44Net wrote:
We dont need to protect any special information in
that setup. All the communication are for repeaters or device that will be used to monitor
the site, remote control or such.
So a simple tunnel without encryption is ok.
But authentication is just plain obligatory.
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R. Learmonth via 44Net <44net(a)mailman.ampr.org>
Envoyé : 4 décembre 2020 14:43
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Cc : Iain R. Learmonth
Objet : Re: [44net] GRE tunnels
Hi,
On 04/12/2020 18:55, Bryan Fields via 44Net wrote:
I take the position that it's ham radio, I
don't mess with IPSEC, just
run GRE
directly on the connection.
This is perfectly fine and I'm not going to say
you're wrong for doing
it this way, but if you were building out something that could be used
for emergency communication then it can pay to add authentication. You
might also end up cornered into carrying potential personal information
over your network (e.g. safety of life exemptions), and it'd be nice if
you limited the scope of the interceptable traffic to only the RF
portion of the network.
In HamBSD (and OpenBSD) configuring IPSec for a GRE tunnel requires:
1. copy the public keys from one host to the other
2. add one line to /etc/iked.conf with the IP addresses and the names
for the public keys you copied in step 1
3. enable/start/restart iked
It's not magic, it's not mystery, it's actually pretty simple. That one
line of config looks like:
ikev2 'mb7uar_rsa' passive esp from 44.190.21.233/32 to 44.190.21.234/32
local 44.190.21.1 srcid
hambsd.org dstid
mb7uar.hambsd.org rsa
This configures a tunnel that expects an inbound connection (MB7UAR has
redundant internet connections, and is behind a NAT on both, so the
other end is not fixed) with the first two IP addresses as the
"internal" tunnel IP addresses. The third IP address is where to listen
"outside" the tunnel. The srcid and dstid just match up the public keys
to make sure you're authenticated.
Thanks,
Iain.
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