Betr.: [CentOS] VPN

Mon May 23 18:54:09 UTC 2005
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 13:44, Jonathan wrote:

> >IF you are not stuck to IPSec, you might want to take a look at OpenVPN (www.openvpn.org). I found OpenVPN easier to install than FreeSWAN (an IPSEC VPN) and have setup an OpenVPN solution between my German office and our mainoffice in a matter of hours.
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> I have to second (resoundingly) Thom on this one.  FreeSWAN is perhaps 
> the most painful tool I have ever dealt with on a linux system, and I 
> would avoid it if you could.  OpenVPN is much more user friendly, though 
> ultimately my company ended up using hardware appliances here (turned 
> out to be cheaper than paying the sysadmin regularly to keep things up).

If you are running Centos 3.x you still have CIPE as a fill-in-the-form
option in the redhat-config-network GUI (Click the 'new' button above
the devices tab).  Unfortunately it is gone in Centos 4.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com