Soon after posting yesterday’s blog entry, How To: VPN Between RV082 (or RV042) and WRT54GL (or WRT54G), I received a comment from Paul Wouters:
Use dpdaction=restart
btw yout ike/ipsec lifetimes are insanely short. you should not do that. leave them default, and the shortest one of the other device will be used.
Paul, if you’re reading this, thanks for the tips!
I wasn’t sure how I could have missed that useful dpdaction=restart setting so I went back and checked the ipsec.conf man page this morning. Sure enough, the dpdaction=restart setting was missing from the man page. That’s why I missed it! See! I did RTFM!
Anyway, I did some googling to find out more about dpdaction=restart and I came across this Openswan mailing list message, authored by none other than Paul Wouters: …Continue reading » A Virtual Visit from Paul Wouters
Introduction
Using the OpenWrt Linux distribution, you can configure a LinkSys WRT54G (also WRT54GS and WRT54GL) router as an IPSec VPN endpoint. This IPSec VPN functionality is provided by an Openswan package that was built specifically for OpenWrt.
In this How To, I will show you how to create a VPN between a LinkSys WRT54GL and a LinkSys RV082 (RV042 could be used also). …Continue reading » How To: VPN Between RV082 (or RV042) and WRT54GL (or WRT54G)
I have just acqutired a LinkSys RV082 VPN router and I want to put custom firmware on it. I love the custom firmwares for the LinkSys WRT54G (e.g. OpenWrt, DD-WRT) but they don’t run on the RV082. After much searching on the internet, I found a project which might eventually lead to custom firmware. The project is OpenIXP. Currently, it’s targetted at the LinkSys WRV54G but the goal stated on the homepage is “to produce a Linux based open environment for the Intel IXP4xx processors”. The project leader also has some great background information on his other site.
Anyway, I was talking to the project leader and he said that in order to port OpenIXP to the RV082 (and possibly RV042?) the first step is to open up the box and figure out what hardware it has. So, I did that. Below is a summary of how I opened the box and what I found inside. …Continue reading » Under the Hood of the LinkSys RV082 VPN Router
