[tech] flying and pptp

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Sun Aug 11 13:03:05 WST 2002


On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 03:30:11AM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> Is there any authentication or user tracking when you hand out these real 
> world IPs? There are several problems with handing out real UWA IPs without 
> any way of authenticating:
>   - it violates UCS security policy
>   - someone might cause a nuisance from it and UCC would get blamed
>   - someone might send traffic in such a way as to cause a huge bill
> 
> Or is this some scheme to have a UCC VPN server handing out UCC IP addresses 
> once they have authenticated?

The IPs which are handed out are firewalled at hydra to UCC, proxy.uwa,
phlegethon, elysium and acheron, preventing access outside.

Matt


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