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Marc A. Lehmann <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: Virtual Private Ethernet
System name: vpe
Type: non-GNU

Description:
vpe stands for virtual private ethernet, and is \"yet another tunnel solution\" 
featuring encapsulation, compression and encryption
of ethernet packets.

The differences between vpe and most other \"vpn\"\'s is that this
implements a real network, that is, multiple hosts connected
with a virtual ethernet.

The goals of this project are to provide a very basic, featureless
but robust, small (in memory) and fast solution that is relatively easy to 
setup (only one shared config file + autogenerated rsa keys)
and uses a single UDP port only.

The reason I wrote (or started to write) it is that I didn\'t find another 
solution that runs stable and conencts multiple hosts.

I used tincd (GPL) as a base, threw away all the tincd code exceot the 
configure, Makefiles, m4 macros and rpelacement functions that were mostly 
taken from other free projects.

http://data.plan9.de/vpe-0.1.tar.gz

Does still contain the doc subdir form the tincd distribution, but it\'s work 
in progress, and will be cleaned up before the first check-in.

Other Software Required:
openssl

Other Comments:
I wouldn\'t mind at all to making this program (if wanted ;) part of the GNU 
project, but I didn\'t select it yet because the source certainly isn\'t up to 
the GNU standards yet. It would be helpful if the page would state that you cna 
apply for a GNU project later (which I assume, but maybe it\'s not as easy), or 
at least tell the actual requirements to apply for that (the refernces don\'T 
go into this topic).