28 Mar
2001
28 Mar
'01
17:15
I've decided to build out my first Linux based VPN server to service a half dozen "road warriors" and thier Windows based laptops (Win2K or XP). However, I'm a bit confused between FreeSwan, PoPToP, openvpn, etc.
After doing quite a bit of research. The requirements on mine were it had to be IPTables friendly, stable, flexible. Ie initiate connection with multiple types of hosts. I tried shielding a win2k server behind a firewall, also the 2.5.52 kernel vpn. After all that I came back to FreeSwan which really wasn't a very hard setup. Given the traffic on the mailing lists users have anything from win2k, to barricade von routers connecting via VPN. So I imagine until 2.5.52 becomes 2.6 then FreeSWAN is the way to go.