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 --------------------------------- Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Ski Dawg > Sent: Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 02:12 > To: centos at 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 > > Registered Linux User #285548 (http://counter.li.org) > ---------------------------------------- > Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. > -- Steve Wozniak > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos