I am looking at options for VPN connections from iPhones and iPod Touches to CentOS systems. We use OpenVPN for connections with Windows, Mac OS X, and other Linux systems, but there don't appear to be any OpenVPN clients for iPhones (presumably because there are no tun/tap interfaces available yet).
My experiences getting IPsec running on CentOS systems with OpenVPN have not been pretty.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks.
Bill
I know my iPhone is able to connect to the PPTP VPN running on my pfsense firewall. I haven't looked for a PPTP package for Centos, but that's one option to try.
Eric Feldhusen
On Jan 24, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Bill Campbell centos@celestial.com wrote:
I am looking at options for VPN connections from iPhones and iPod Touches to CentOS systems. We use OpenVPN for connections with Windows, Mac OS X, and other Linux systems, but there don't appear to be any OpenVPN clients for iPhones (presumably because there are no tun/tap interfaces available yet).
My experiences getting IPsec running on CentOS systems with OpenVPN have not been pretty.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks.
Bill
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On Sun, Jan 24, 2010, Eric Feldhusen wrote:
I know my iPhone is able to connect to the PPTP VPN running on my pfsense firewall. I haven't looked for a PPTP package for Centos, but that's one option to try.
Thanks, but I don't like PPTP for a variety of reasons, not the least being that it's a great example of kindergarten cryptography. More important though is that it requires kernel support that's not standard in CentOS, and I would like to stay away from that if possible.
Bill
Bill Campbell wrote:
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010, Eric Feldhusen wrote:
I know my iPhone is able to connect to the PPTP VPN running on my pfsense firewall. I haven't looked for a PPTP package for Centos, but that's one option to try.
Thanks, but I don't like PPTP for a variety of reasons, not the least being that it's a great example of kindergarten cryptography. More important though is that it requires kernel support that's not standard in CentOS, and I would like to stay away from that if possible.
I haven't setup an L2TP vpn, but it looks like it's either IPsec or L2TP are the remaining options. I couldn't find another vpn app except for a Fortigate SSL-VPN, which will require a Fortigate firewall.
Eric Feldhusen
On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Bill Campbell centos@celestial.com wrote:
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010, Eric Feldhusen wrote:
I know my iPhone is able to connect to the PPTP VPN running on my pfsense firewall. I haven't looked for a PPTP package for Centos, but that's one option to try.
Thanks, but I don't like PPTP for a variety of reasons, not the least being that it's a great example of kindergarten cryptography. More important though is that it requires kernel support that's not standard in CentOS, and I would like to stay away from that if possible.
PPTP doesn't have the cryptographic weakness the initial MS implementation had, doesn't require any special kernel module (it's PPP over GRE) and just works with a majority of software and products on the market.
You will find L2TP a lot harder to make it work (if at all) with the varying devices out there.
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