Betr.: [CentOS] VPN

Mon May 23 21:22:18 UTC 2005
Peter Farrow <peter at farrows.org>

on average i takes me less than 5 minutes to setup vpn with freeswan.....

4 mins of this usually involve finding the right kernel versions....

P.
:-)

If anyone wants to know the easyway to use freeswan drop me aline it 
really is very simple.


Les Mikesell wrote:

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