Re: VPN?

Thanks for the tips Russ and Ethan!

I have been using FreeSwan in the past but indeed development has stopped, 
not the most obvious choice :)

I read good things about OpenVPN but it needs a separate VPN client. If 
I'm on holiday and I want o use my own phone from an internet cafe it 
might be a problem as many computers are locked down to prevent 
installation of stuff.

I wonder what RedHat will be including for RHEL4 as a vpn solution.

would be nice to have something supported on stock boxes


On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Ethan James wrote:

> poptop - PPTP - Will work with the built in vpn client, its easy to setup, 
> but last I look it didn't support compression and was pretty slow.
>
> freeswan (there are a bunch of forks of this) - IPSec - Will work with 
> builtin vpn client in windows but is a pain in the ass from what I've read, I 
> think they stopped development on this last year also.
>
> openvpn - SSL - I haven't look into this on much, there is a win32 client, 
> but I think its mostly cli configuaration.
>
> hardware solution - IPSec - like a cisco pix or sonicwall vpn appliance, 
> usually easy to setup, but also expensive
>
> Dunno if that helps, the only one I've really used is poptop and its pretty 
> slow.
>
> HTH
> -e
>
> Remco Barendse wrote:
>> I would like to setup VPN on some Tao boxes. The VPN will be used with 
>> roaming Windows clients that need access to a network for file access and 
>> place/receive voip calls. Ideally the clients should be able to connect 
>> using the built-in Windows vpn client to allow vpn access even from an 
>> internet cafe.
>> 
>> Any recommendations on which VPN server to use? I noticed that the VPN 
>> server that is included in RHEL3 is not included in RHEL4 beta. I would 
>> prefer a system that can be easily migrated to RHEL as soon as it's 
>> released stable.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Remco
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