I am needing to set up an IP Tunnel from a hospital to another company to send x ray pictures over. I have never set an IP Tunnel up before so I’m not really sure what all I need to do to get it going. I have the public ip’s from the other company to connect the tunnel to. I can seem to get the tunnel connected, but they aren’t able to talk to my side. Not sure if I need to set up any ipsec settings. I’ve done a lot of pptp tunnels but never an IPtunnel. Any way I can get some info on what and where I need to look or go to set it up? Thanks!
Be aware that most countries have privacy laws when it comes to medical data such as X-ray pictures. If you don’t comply with them the fines are really, really, really steep. Make sure you know the requirements for whatever network connections you build for businesses that fall under those laws. You can’t just throw up any old tunnel and call it good.
Setting this up as an IP tunnel isn’t my idea. The company that the pictures are going to require this IP tunnel.
Just saying. They may not know that, either. I’d make them aware. The fines typically are in the range that put companies out of business. Might be worth pointing out to them.
“IP tunnel” just means a method of taking some sort of packet at an endpoint, encapsulating it in an IP protocol, and sending it somewhere where it will be decapsulated. Basically anything where the carrier protocol belongs to the IPv4 or IPv6 family is an IP tunnel. What kind of protocol are you looking to implement? IPIP? EoIP? GRE? IPsec? PTPP? etc.
IPIP
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/IPIP
That includes a setup example.
IPIP offers no encryption whatsoever. I cannot stress enough that doing this is probably an incredibly bad idea and in violation of law, and may come back to you as the person setting it up.
Then it might be IPsec. When I talked to them on the phone they were asking about my settings for encryption on the tunnel make sure I have my side matching theirs.
Thanks. I’m probably going to have to get them on the phone and go through with it while I set it up on my side. I will ask them about violation of law though. I’m sure since they are requiring this tunnel be set up they know about it already, but better safe than sorry. Thanks again!!