site-site vpn setup..

[Rob Townley]

My non IT staff used tinc for years and years on ~20 roaming TabletPCs and
never knew.  I cant get them to copy-n-paste.

Even Microsoft PowerShell 6 builds in a ssh client and _server_ to remotely
manage MS Windows and this what allows Ansible to perform DSC on fleets of
windows and Linux machines.

 I suspect the article is from the GUI only dark ages of Steve Ballmer.

Windows 2012 LOGO’ed network switches are meant to be configured from the
CLI over ssh.


On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:09 AM Rafael Wolf <rfwolf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Al like any open-source or free sofware you need to put the leg work into
> what you want it to be.
>
> My company is actually creating something using TINC and we believe in
> it.  If successful we'll be giving back to TINC monetarily in a big way to
> make TINC even better so if TINC isn't for you keep an eye on further
> developments in the future.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Rafael
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 12:03 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org>
> wrote:
>
>> SNMP is mainly used for monitoring, not _server_ automation.
>>
>> Also, it's inherently insecure for anything else - only SNMPv3 offers any
>> kind of encryption, and it's DES - 56 bit only, and you can easily
>> brute-force it on an average computer.
>>
>>
>> If you could provide some serious articles about why is CLI insecure, I'd
>> be interested to read.
>>
>>
>> Tomasz Chmielewski
>> https://lxadm.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2018-03-30 00:48, al so wrote:
>>
>>> Just search online why in general that is insecure via CLI vs
>>> programmatic for first class automation..  there is a reason why snmp,
>>> rest, ... exist.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 3:50 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> You've mentioned security issues in your previous email, but now
>>>> you're hopping to management issues.
>>>>
>>>> Have you tried Ansible, Chef or Puppet for automation? It works well
>>>> for hundreds of servers, different services and not just one kind of
>>>> VPN.
>>>>
>>>> Tomasz Chmielewski
>>>> https://lxadm.com
>>>>
>>>> On 2018-03-29 16:10, al so wrote:
>>>> Programmatic management with first class APIs is preferred for
>>>> larger
>>>> deployments..
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski
>>>> <mangoo at wpkg.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Could you elaborate on why CLI (SSH) managing is insecure?
>>>>
>>>> Tomasz Chmielewski
>>>> https://lxadm.com
>>>>
>>>> On 2018-03-27 04:23, al so wrote:
>>>> So, for remote manageability of Tinc, we don't have any SNMP or
>>>> REST
>>>> like programmatic ways?
>>>>
>>>> If it is going to be CLI only, it is definitely not secure to manage
>>>> and also not very convenient to manage programmatically.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 1:44 AM, Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 02:16:20PM -0700, al so wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is there any quickstart guide to setup site-to-site VPN using
>>>> Tinc 1.1
>>>>
>>>> pre-rel?
>>>>
>>>
>>> You can find an example of a site-to-site VPN with four sites here:
>>>
>>> http://tinc-vpn.org/documentation/Example-configuration.html [1] [1]
>>> [1]
>>>
>>> Assuming I have two routers at two sites running tinc vpn along
>>>>>
>>>>   with
>>>
>>> routing feature.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> If you only have two sites, then just look at the example
>>> configuration
>>> for "Branch A" and "Branch B" in the page I linked, and ignore the
>>> other
>>> two sites.
>>>
>>> Once I setup manually and validate the connection, I want to
>>>>>
>>>>   automate
>>>
>>> using REST APIs.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> Tinc does not expose any REST APIs. With tinc 1.1, you can use the
>>> command line tool to automate things though, see:
>>>
>>> http://tinc-vpn.org/documentation-1.1/Controlling-tinc.html [2] [2]
>>> [2]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Links:
>>> ------
>>> [1] http://tinc-vpn.org/documentation/Example-configuration.html
>>> [2] http://tinc-vpn.org/documentation-1.1/Controlling-tinc.html
>>>
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