X-Bone v1.3 overlay software code release (FreeBSD/Linux)

["K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>]

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Version 1.3 of the X-Bone system for automated deployment of
VPN / overlay networks is now publicly available.

The X-Bone provides a web-based GUI and back-end control software to
deploy Internet overlays. The X-Bone discovers available components,
and securely configures an entire topology (interface addresses, DNS,
and static routes) remotely.

The X-Bone is implemented in Perl, and source is provided.  It is
available as a FreeBSD port (3.3+, 4.x+), a Linux RedHat RPM (6.x+),
and as a source tar file. See the source for licensing/copyright info.

The X-Bone can be used for:

      - deploying VPNs
	for IPSEC'd remote access

      - networking research
	for sharing lab or wide-area networks
        to test protocols and apps on new topologies

      - networking and systems lab classes
	to support multiple, concurrent projects

Updates from the March 2000 v1.2 release:

	- supports any size IP blocks (prev. limited to 'class C')
	- alias tunnels between same endpoints, eliminating
	  the need for kernel patches to both FreeBSD+KAME and Linux
	- compatible with mrtd (with static overlay routes)
	- numerous bug fixes and additional GUI capabilities

Further information is available at:

      http://www.isi.edu/xbone/

- Joe Touch
  Project Leader, X-Bone group, USC/ISI
  touch@isi.edu                       
  http://www.isi.edu/touch
  +1 (310) 448-9151

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		Associate Professor  Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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