[DRBD-user] encryption and compression ?!?

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Fri Jul 23 13:26:41 CEST 2004

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
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/ 2004-07-23 10:04:13 +0200
\ Bruno Depero:
> Anyone tried to use ssh/zebedee or other tunneling systems to do an 
> encryption and compression on drbd datas ?!?
> 
> I have a replication between two servers on lan. I wish to do a remote 
> replication on another wharehouse/office... in event of fire, flood, 
> earthquake, theft, asteroids fall and so on....
> I can have two servers here with state-of-the-art data replication, ups, 
> cooling, everything but in event of a theft or flood ? It's an old 
> building, when it reall rains water comes in... in a couple of years 
> we'll have a new and greater building but now really unstable !
> 
> I cannot buy two internet connections at 1Gbps !!! And don't want data 
> be world readable.
> 
> I tried with zebedee makeing a tunnel on port 7788 but no way... other 
> ports are used ?!? nmap reports nothing on 7788...

well, when?
once the connection is established,
drbd does no longer listen there.

take a look at the CIPE project, or use some more full blown vpn.
and what ever you use to tunnel it, get it up first, before drbd
is started.

	Lars Ellenberg



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