[tech] flying and pptp

James Andrewartha trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Mon Aug 12 16:58:02 WST 2002


On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Grahame Bowland wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 07:05 pm, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> > Flying is now handing out real IPs in 130.95.13.240/28 and SNAP
> > works perfectly over wireless. As does streaming raw CD audio :)
> 
> 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

As Matt pointed out, these are firewalled to UCC and a few public UCS
hosts. If you want, I can change it so it gives out the equivalent WAIX
only IPs (but still firewalled). Oh, and SMTP and RPC are not allowed onto
the wired network at all.

> Or is this some scheme to have a UCC VPN server handing out UCC IP addresses 
> once they have authenticated?

A UCC VPN server might come in handy, but we don't have one set up right
now.

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