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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-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ski Dawg Sent: Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 02:12 To: centos@centos.org 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
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