VPN Server

Chris Midkiff chris at datacaptech.com
Thu Sep 19 18:13:22 CDT 2002


I also installed Freeswan, while testing.  It installed and runs 
fine, but does not support X509 certificates.  Needs a kernel patch 
to gain this functionality, as I understand it. (See 
http://www.natecarlson.com/include/showpage.php?cat=linux&page=ipsec-x
509)

Now, I'm not using RH7.3, so perhaps (ray of hope) the default RH 
Kernel now supports X509 out of the box?

Chris Midkiff
DataCapture Technologies, INC.
Chris at datacaptech.com

On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:53:30 -0500 (CDT), Tony Zafiropoulos wrote:
>
>
>Have successfully installed freeswan...
>
>http://www.freeswan.org/
>
>You do not have to compile your own kernels...
>
>Use: http://rpms.steamballoon.com/freeswan/
>
>I have installed RH7.3 then the steamballoon rpms and freeswan now
>just
>needs to be configured (reduces the time spent learning the
>compiling)
>
>Tony
>
>
>On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Chris Midkiff wrote:
>
>>I need to set up a VPN server, so that our people can connect from
>>their Win2k clients at home.  At this point, I'm just doing the
>>research, and would love to hear some ideas.  I've use VPN Clients
>>before, but don't know much about the server side of things.
>>
>>Has anyone ever done this?  The VPN Howto that I found talks about
>>patching (which I have not done) and building (which I have done) a
>>
>>new kernel, with X25 support.  This howto also show setting up a
>>valid IP Address for people to connect from.  Most of these people
>>are dial-up users, and I have no idea what their address will be.
>>
>>There are several special purpose distro's that have support for
>>VPN
>>and X25, such as SmoothWall linux.  Anyone have any experience with
>>
>>one of these packages?
>>
>>Also, we use a SpeedStream DSL Router that lists SecureVPN as an
>>optional component.  Might that be worth looking into?
>>
>>Chris Midkiff
>>DataCapture Technologies, INC.
>>Chris at datacaptech.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>majordomo at kclug.org
>>




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