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GNU Virtual Private Ethernet 1.5 (Default)

Sections: Mac OS X, Unix

Added: Sat, Jan 17th 2004 09:01 UTC (4 years, 8 months ago)

Updated: Mon, Sep 1st 2008 09:54 UTC (1 month, 6 days ago)

About:
GNU VPE creates a virtual ethernet by creating host-to-host tunnels between multiple endpoints. Unlike other virtual private "network" solutions which merely create a single tunnel, it creates a real network with multiple endpoints. It is designed to be conceptually simple and straightforward to setup (assuming prior IP routing knowledge) without sacrificing flexibility. It is designed to sit on the gateway machines of company branches to connect them, but it can also be used to tunnel into a VPN with a variety of protocols (RAW IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP, HTTPS-Proxy, DNS).

Release focus: Minor bugfixes

Changes:
This release fixes a longstanding bug that affected routers only and caused zeroing of queued control packets, resulting in harmless but scary-looking error messages and slightly delayed connections between hosts. It adds better error reporting when the node configuration is wrong and updates the LZF code to 1.2. The protocol is unchanged.

Author:
Marc A. Lehmann [contact developer]

Homepage:
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gvpe
Tar/GZ:
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gvpe/
Changelog:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/gvpe/NEWS?root=gvpe
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gvpe/

Trove categories: [change]
[Development Status] 6 - Mature
[Environment] Console (Text Based), No Input/Output (Daemon), Other Environment
[Intended Audience] Other Audience, System Administrators
[License] OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Network Environment] IP, IP :: IPv4
[Operating System] MacOS, Microsoft, Microsoft :: Windows, Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows NT/2000/XP, POSIX :: BSD, POSIX :: BSD :: FreeBSD, POSIX :: BSD :: NetBSD, POSIX :: BSD :: OpenBSD, POSIX :: Linux, POSIX :: SunOS/Solaris
[Topic] Communications, Internet, System, System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks, System :: Networking, Utilities

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

Project admins: [change]
» Marc A. Lehmann (Owner)

» Rating: 8.39/10.00 (Rank N/A)
» Vitality: 0.13% (Rank 1380)
» Popularity: 3.39% (Rank 1264)

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Branches

Branch Version Last release License URLs

Default 2.2 01-Sep-2008 GNU General Public License (GPL)

Releases

Version Focus Date

2.2 N/A 01-Sep-2008 09:54

2.01 Minor bugfixes 29-Mar-2007 20:18

2.0 Minor bugfixes 08-Dec-2005 10:45

1.9 N/A 19-Apr-2005 10:20

1.8 N/A 18-Mar-2005 06:38

1.7 Minor bugfixes 26-Feb-2005 20:24

1.6 Minor bugfixes 10-May-2004 22:33

1.5 Minor bugfixes 30-Jan-2004 00:21

1.4 Initial freshmeat announcement 18-Jan-2004 07:43