Re: OpenVPN?

grep <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.linux
Organization Reflex Security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[2004-06-04->18:29] [email protected]:
> tor, 03.06.2004 kl. 17.50 skrev Jeremy Jackson:
>> Fre wrote:
>> > Guys (and gals),
>> > 
>> > I'm thinking to implement VPN between Debian and Windows XP-clients...
>> > Plan was to use OpenVPN, as I did hear some possitive comments about it.
>> > But I'd like to use some debian-apt, I have no clue what vpn-package to
>> > install, though.
>> 
>> I am using the kernel IPSEC with racoon keying daemon.
>
> Then I understand it must be FreeS/WAN, right?  I'm using Fedora, thus
> ipsec is not part of the kernel because of export restrictions in US I
> think.  I normally rebuild the kernel with FreeS/WAN myself.
>
> Can you please tell me about the racoon keying daemon?
>
> Bjørn :-)

Take a look at the lartc howto:

http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.ipsec.automatic.keying.html

I also highly recommend the ipsec.org howto:

http://www.ipsec-howto.org/t1.html

Racoon is part of the KAME-tools section.  See: 
http://www.ipsec-howto.org/x282.html

I know it's a bit late, but I just got here.

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