4 Maintainer: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
5 Uploaders: Stephen Early <steve@greenend.org.uk>,
6 Richard Kettlewell <rjk@terraraq.org.uk>
7 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 12), libgmp3-dev, libadns1-dev, bison, flex,
8 libbsd-dev, python3, tclx, tcl, libtcl-chiark-1
9 Standards-Version: 3.0.1
13 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
14 Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}
16 Description: VPN software for distributed networks
17 secnet allows multiple private networks, each 'hidden' behind a single
18 globally-routable IP address, to be bridged together. It also
19 supports individual client systems which may connect to multiple
22 Compared to many other systems, secnet has good handling of mobile
23 endpoints (mobile client nodes), and extremely flexible configuration.
24 However, it is not easy to configure.
26 secnet works well with userv-ipif (allowing it to run without needing
27 root privilege) and hippotat (not currently in Debian).
29 secnet is the main VPN program used by greenend.org.uk.