GVPE creates a virtual ethernet network with multiple nodes using a variety of transport protocols. Participating nodes do not need to trust each other.
GVPE creates a virtual ethernet (broadcasts supported, any protocol that works with a normal ethernet should work with GVPE) by creating encrypted host-to-host tunnels between multiple endpoints.
Unlike other virtual private "network" solutions which merely create a single tunnel, GVPE creates a real network with multiple endpoints.
It is designed to be very simple and robust (cipher selection done at compiletime etc.), and easy to setup (only a single config file shared unmodified between all hosts).
VPN hosts can neither sniff nor fake packets, that is, you can use MAC-based filtering to ensure authenticity of packets even from member nodes.
GVPE can also be used to tunnel into some vpn network using a variety of protocols (raw IP, UDP, TCP, HTTPS-proxy-connect, ICMP and DNS). It is, however, primarily designed to sit on the gateway machines of company branches to connect them together.
FILE | File Releases (GNU) |
CVS | Browsable CVS module 'gvpe' |
CVS | Anonymous CVS: cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.schmorp.de/schmorpforge co gvpe |
IRC | Server irc.schmorp.de, channel #schmorpforge, user schmorp (say hi and wait a few minutes or hours, or /msg schmorp directly)) |
POD | Main Manual Page |
POD | doc/gvpe.conf.5.pod |
POD | doc/gvpectrl.8.pod |
POD | doc/gvpe.8.pod |
POD | doc/gvpe.protocol.7.pod |
POD | doc/gvpe.osdep.5.pod |