Geoff and Jobst,<div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the reply. I will investigate openswan further.</div></div><div>-- <br>Doug<br><br>Registered Linux User #285548 (<a href="http://counter.li.org">http://counter.li.org</a>)<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Jobst Schmalenbach <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jobst@barrett.com.au">jobst@barrett.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi<br>
<br>
I can second that, Openswan is the way to go (sorry the ONLY way to go).<br>
Centos has the latest, but I would highly recommend to have Centos on
both ends.<br>
Centos is one of the distros that uses NSS by default and standard out
of the box, so this makes is easier.<br>
<br>
There's also a PDF booklet (get that from amazon, its written by Paul
Wouters, one of the Openswan developers), link on the website.<br>
<br>
The toughest part is getting the keys and connections right, personally
I would not do it without subscribing to <a href="mailto:users@openswan.org" target="_blank">"users@openswan.org"</a> first,
they are helpfull and you will find Paul on the list, too.<br>
<br>
Been using Openswan (well it used to be freeS/WAN, hence the animal
used) for many years and once you set it up and have the key exchange
working you never have to change a thing again other then (in my case)
"yum update openswan".<br>
<br>
jobst<br>
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On 10/03/2010 18:08, Geoff Galitz wrote:
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<pre>I use Openswan regularly for IPSec VPN connections to remote sites.
Although the documentation is a bit lacking it is pretty easy to get going
once you've played with it a bit.
It is reliable, widely available and the openswan users support list is
responsive.
If you have trouble connecting to the remote side, ike-scan can help in
getting your key exchange settings right. That is usually the hard part, in
my experience.
-geoff
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From: <a href="mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org" target="_blank">centos-bounces@centos.org</a> [<a href="mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org" target="_blank">mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org</a>] On
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Sent: Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 02:12
To: <a href="mailto:centos@centos.org" target="_blank">centos@centos.org</a>
Subject: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Setup?
Hello Everyone,
I have been tasked at work with setting up a VPN connection from our
server to a client's network. The only problem is that I have never
done anything like this before, so I am not sure where to start.
We are running CentOS 5.4 on our server. I do not yet know what the
client is running for their VPN, the only thing I know of from the
client, is we need to use IPSec for our VPN connection to them. I have
been googling, and have found quite a bit of information, but it is a
little overwhelming, as I am new to setting up a VPN. Is the a
"standard" method for doing this sort of setup that I am missing so
far?
If anyone has any quick pointers to get me started, that would be
greatly appreciated.
--
Doug
Registered Linux User #285548 (<a href="http://counter.li.org" target="_blank">http://counter.li.org</a>)
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