Re: Quality of FreeS/WAN support

>   One of our (major) FreeS/WAN volunteers just said:
>
>   "FreeS/WAN is probably one of the best supported IPSec implementations
> out there..."
> --  Ken Bantoff

I'm quite sure this is true, even if I didn't try to get support from other
implementations of IPSec.
Since I've read a lot of messages in this mailing list, I've learned more
about IPSec and it helped a lot in my work. Thanks


>   The first question is simple, "How can we support FreeS/WAN users
> like _you_ better?".

The first idea I have about this, is to ask you if it is possible to have a
FreeS/WAN forum.
This will surely avoid spams and viruses that are common place in this
mailing list. The bigest advantage I see in a forum will be the grouping of
subjects. (for users, establish zones about "FreeS/WAN 2.0", "interaction
with Cisco products", "interaction with Windows",  "Oportunistic
Encryption", etc) Of course, this could be a big task to set a forum, I'm
just telling you how practical it can be.


>   The whole idea of FreeS/WAN was to do OE and not make just another
> IPsec system.  OE should be useful as it is, and should be much more
> useful soon with WAVEsec (see www.wavesec.org) and other
> improvements coming soon.
>
>   For instance, what would convince you to re-configure your hand
> crafted VPN or X.509 mess move it all to OE?  Is there some admin tool
> that would make OE more useful then traditional VPN?  Is there some
> very common situation where a focused end user OE HOWTO for _just_
> that situation cause your users to want OE maybe?

I personally don't use OE for my IPSec settings but I am glad to see you
have many ideas about further development of FreeS/WAN!

Cheers
Mathieu Bonnet