[CentOS] state of IPSec VPN on CentOS 7: Openswan, strongSwan, RPM packages

Tue Apr 14 18:40:22 UTC 2015
Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org>

On 2015-04-14 11:25, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 04/14/2015 11:07 AM, Florin Andrei wrote:
>> I looked in the yum repositories for CentOS 7 and I noticed that there
>> are no packages for any of the major open source IPSec VPN apps -
>> Openswan, strongSwan, etc. I'm pretty sure CentOS 6 had Openswan 
>> packages.
> 
> libreswan replaced openswan, and is available in the CentOS 7 repo.

I just noticed that strongSwan is in EPEL.

I'm also looking at this comment on ServerFault:

http://serverfault.com/a/655752/24406

If that is accurate, the documentation, and the clustering / load 
balancing might tilt the balance in the direction of strongSwan.

-- 
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/