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. Seems like a lot of products that kind of do similar things. Not that that is a problem, options are good. I just need a bit of help narrowing things down. Any tips? By the way, I won't be doing the firewalling on Linux - that purpose will continue to be served by a dedicated firewall device. thanks! -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions
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.
What magical happens in 2.6? Isn't FreeS/WAN being built into the 2.6 kernel? I know they were probably going to be the shoe-in for the IPV6 stack... begin On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:15:08 -0800 Rowan Reid <rreid@studio3arc.com> wrote:
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.
-- Matthew Carpenter matt@eisgr.com http://www.eisgr.com/ Enterprise Information Systems *Network Consulting, Integration & Support *Web Development and E-Business
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