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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Announcing...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><STRONG>janus watcher</STRONG> - Dynamic DNS
watcher for FreeS/WAN & forks. Perl script that watches dynamic DNS hosts
and replaces the connection when the IP address changes.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><A
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/janus-watcher/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/janus-watcher/</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable</DIV>
<DIV>License: GNU General Public License (GPL)</DIV>
<DIV>Natural Language: English</DIV>
<DIV>Operating System: Linux</DIV>
<DIV>Programming Language: Perl</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><U>Release notes for janus watcher v.1.3</U><BR><BR>This is the first
public release of janus watcher.<BR><BR>The basic functionalities have been
extensively tested as this script is currently </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>a part of VPN IPSec pack modification to
SmoothWall Express 2.0 </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>(GPL Firewall
http://www.smoothwall.org).<BR><BR>janus allows computers with dynamic IPs to
establish IPSec VPN connections </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>using FreeS/WANwan and forks. Computers with
dynamic IPs must register with </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>a dynamic DNS provider.<BR><BR>At startup time
janus reads its configuration from /etc/ipsec.conf. Its parameters </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>begin with "x_" but it also look into other
parameters.<BR><BR>Documentation is included.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>