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The best I can do is HaskVPN. This name is so bad I'm afraid to admit it. A better suggestion would be much appreciated.

How about HaPN (pronounced as happen), obviously standing for Haskell Private Network. Whether it's better is a matter of taste ;-)

Is the code around somewhere? This sounds intriguing.

-- Don

I second that ...

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

Is the code around somewhere? This sounds intriguing.

-- Don

Yes! Though this is the "Works For Me (alpha release)" version. Keep in mind: * It's not cabalized yet, so... we use my quick-and-dirty build scripts to build/clean. * It's throughput runs at about 800KB/s over Wi-Fi (i should be able to get this faster). * Depends on the Data.Binary (binary) * Depends on Network.Socket.ByteString (network-bytestring) * Requires that you have the tun module loaded (make sure the /dev/net/tun device exists) * Needs to run as root (do you trust me?) * UDP port is fixed at 24999 for now (remember, WFM alpha release) * It uses a C file to do the ioctls and setup the IP address, MTU, etc... (any one able to see a way to remove the C file? It's not doing anything all that complex...) Here's how to use it: sudo ./haskvpn [my vpn ip] [address to bind to] [address to connect to] Here's any example: # On machine 1 sudo ./haskvpn 10.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 192.168.128.60 # On machine 2 sudo ./haskvpn 10.0.0.2 0.0.0.0 192.168.128.50 Once that comes up, you should be able to ping, ssh, etc from 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.2 and back again. The code is here: http://sw17ch.com/code/haskvpn-1223320484.tar.gz Once the code is downloaded, run ./build.sh and you (should) find the haskvpn binary in the same directory. There are 338 lines of haskell/c (including comments/whitespace), so it shouldn't take too long to read over. Reccomendations/patches/insults are requested! -- /jve

As far as insults go, one simply cannot go wrong with THE Shakespearean insult kit ;-)) http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/shake_rule.html 2008/10/6 John Van Enk

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

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Is the code around somewhere? This sounds intriguing.

-- Don

Yes! Though this is the "Works For Me (alpha release)" version.

Keep in mind: * It's not cabalized yet, so... we use my quick-and-dirty build scripts to build/clean. * It's throughput runs at about 800KB/s over Wi-Fi (i should be able to get this faster). * Depends on the Data.Binary (binary) * Depends on Network.Socket.ByteString (network-bytestring) * Requires that you have the tun module loaded (make sure the /dev/net/tun device exists) * Needs to run as root (do you trust me?) * UDP port is fixed at 24999 for now (remember, WFM alpha release) * It uses a C file to do the ioctls and setup the IP address, MTU, etc... (any one able to see a way to remove the C file? It's not doing anything all that complex...)

Here's how to use it:

sudo ./haskvpn [my vpn ip] [address to bind to] [address to connect to]

Here's any example:

# On machine 1 sudo ./haskvpn 10.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 192.168.128.60

# On machine 2 sudo ./haskvpn 10.0.0.2 0.0.0.0 192.168.128.50

Once that comes up, you should be able to ping, ssh, etc from 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.2 and back again.

The code is here: http://sw17ch.com/code/haskvpn-1223320484.tar.gz

Once the code is downloaded, run ./build.sh and you (should) find the haskvpn binary in the same directory.

There are 338 lines of haskell/c (including comments/whitespace), so it shouldn't take too long to read over.

Reccomendations/patches/insults are requested!

-- /jve

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And to be really original, try to sell some weird adjective with it. The ubuntu crowd didn't buy this, so maybe you could make it Horny Hornet VPN ;-) 2008/10/6 Jason Dagit

My advice so to find something cute, like an animal, and use that in the name instead of some implementation details like the programming language.

So you could be, WaterbearVPN, for example. Okay, that was sort of a joke as waterbears aren't really that cute, but I think you get the idea.

Jason

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This is quite tempting, since my screen saver is a directory full of lambdacats.... On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Anton van Straaten wrote:

Jason Dagit wrote:

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2008/10/6 John Van Enk mailto:vanenkj@gmail.com>

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The best I can do is HaskVPN. This name is so bad I'm afraid to admit it. A better suggestion would be much appreciated.

My advice so to find something cute, like an animal, and use that in the name instead of some implementation details like the programming language.

Or you could combine both cuteness and implementation details, with "HaVPN", the mascot for which would be a lambdacat[*] saying:

"I can HaVPN?"

Anton

[*] http://arcanux.org/lambdacats.html

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-- /jve

Hmm... I like Securry, but I'm going to go ahead and shorten it to Scurry. I also like HaPN a lot. Any suggestions why either of these would be better than the other? Perhaps a third party candidate would be more appropriate? So... 1. Scurry 2. HaPN 3. ??? (bah, sorry Brandon, reply all, reply all reply all...) On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH < allbery@ece.cmu.edu> wrote:

On 2008 Oct 6, at 20:56, ajb@spamcop.net wrote:

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Quoting John Van Enk :

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I'm working on a Haskell based VPN. I can't think of any good names, so I'm crowd sourcing it.

(elided abuse of Old Possum) I'd be tempted to pick a word starting with "lan" and put a "v" in front of it. My favourite VLANscape in particular. It sounds professional,

I would advise against, as a VLAN is a very different beast from a VPN.

-- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH

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-- /jve

I've settled on scurry. Those of you interested in seeing the cabalized "Works For Me Alpha" version can check out the Google Code page below. http://code.google.com/p/scurry/ Again, suggestions/comments/hatemail are encouraged. /jve On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:

On 2008.10.06 21:19:17 -0400, John Van Enk scribbled 4.3K characters:

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Hmm...

I like Securry, but I'm going to go ahead and shorten it to Scurry. I also like HaPN a lot.

Any suggestions why either of these would be better than the other? Perhaps a third party candidate would be more appropriate?

So... 1. Scurry 2. HaPN 3. ???

(bah, sorry Brandon, reply all, reply all reply all...)

Scurry has my vote. It is cute, it implies the software is busy and useful, it has the requisite subtle FP joke, and it doesn't seem to be already used.

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