Re: The point of VPN? and SW's role?

On Thursday, September 30, 2004 2:57 AM [GMT-5=EST], Amund Nygaard 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> The forum has some very nice faq's and howtos.
>
> IMO the easiest is to have a vpn that connects 2 networks. I think
> you have to patch the kernel to support nat-traversel so that a vpn
> connection can be made behind the smoothwall.
>
> Iam running a vpn between my sw and a cisco pix vpn concentrator. So
> it is not limited between sw, actually the sw was more flexible than
> the cisco in a way. At least if you install the vpnpack from the
> forum.
>
> I would say a good place to start would be
> http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3625

IMO, IPsec is on its way out.  I would highly recommend checking out OpenVPN 
<http://openvpn.sf.net>.  This would be an invaluable add-on as it seems to 
be in SmoothWall's natural evolution path.  There's much interest in the 
'homebrew' section of the forums for using OpenVPN to protect a Wi-Fi (BLUE) 
interface.  And since OpenVPN runs on Linux, Windows 2000/XP and higher, 
OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris, we would no longer have 
those issues with trying to get an IPsec client to interoperate with 
SmoothWall.

-Adam
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