Network Security Hacks

Tunnel with VTun and SSH

Connect two networks using VTun and a single SSH connection.

VTun is a user-space tunnel server, allowing entire networks to be tunneled to each other using the tun universal tunnel kernel driver. An encrypted tunnel such as VTun allows roaming wireless clients to secure all of their IP traffic using strong encryption. It currently runs under Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X. The examples in this hack assume that you are using Linux.

The procedure described next will allow a host with a private IP address (10.42.4.6) to bring up a new tunnel interface with a real, live, routed IP address (208.201.239.33) that works as expected, as if the private network weren’t even there. Do this by bringing up the tunnel, dropping the default route, and then adding a new default route via the other end of the tunnel.

To begin with, here is the (pretunneled) network configuration:

root@client:~# ifconfig eth2 eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:2A:27:EA inet addr:10.42.3.2 Bcast:10.42.3.63 Mask:255.255.255.192 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:662 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:733 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:105616 (103.1 Kb) TX bytes:74259 (72.5 Kb) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100 root@client:~# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.42.3.0 * 255.255.255.192 U 0 0 0 eth2 loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 10.42.3.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 ...