HELP Rebel Remote Client

[Ralph Siemsen]

Gavin Service wrote:
> Hi Ralph,
> 
> I've checked the CD & no client is there. THe server is already running 
> on the netwinder & has it's three clients free & unused.
> There is an option to download the free client, but it's a link to the 
> rebel.com website.

Oh wait, are we mixing up RebelConnect and RebelRemote?  I can never 
remember which is which.  One of them is actually FreeS/WAN, which 
implements an ipsec VPN... there is no "client" for this one, rather it 
talks to any other ipsec device.  It can be used to setup a VPN tunnel 
between two netwinders, or one netwinder + another machine running 
ipsec.  As the name implies, FreeS/WAN is open-source software.

The other VPN package is a client-to-server package from a 3rd party 
that was bundled with the netwinder.  This is the one with the license 
files etc.  Its commercial software, and the license was between 
Rebel.com and the vendor of the VPN software.  We (netwinder.org) 
therefore have no legal way to distribute or support this VPN 
software... so we try to stay out of this murky water.

If you are just looking for a simple way to connect securely to your 
netwinder, I would suggest looking at SSH (Secure Shell).  It can be 
used to remotely adminster the machine, or to connect (via port 
forwarding) to machines behind the netwinder.

-R