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

Tue Apr 14 18:44:30 UTC 2015
Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>

2015-04-14 21:40 GMT+03:00 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.
>
>
Well, both packages can do ipsec to cisco asa without any problems.

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Eero