VPN options
Christopher K. Johnson
ckjohnson at gwi.net
Sat Feb 21 21:18:58 UTC 2004
Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>To get things back on track, I am asking whether cipe or freeswan
>have problems with Fedora, not whether comcast might, sometime in
>the future, forbid VPN. The info on comcast was to clarify
>motivation and application.
>
>...
>
>My question was about cipe versus freeswan versus other, in the
>specific context of Fedora. I have to choose a protocol, and I
>would rather avoid wasting resources on something that is hard to
>get working. Anyone have any answers to this? If you want to
>debate the comcast issue, please change the subject line, thank you.
>
>Keith
>
>
>
FC2 test1 uses the 2.6 kernel, which provides built-in ipsec support.
The ipsec-tools package provides utilities for configuring and managing
ipsec VPN. For a new VPN implementation you should check that out
first. I intend to do some experimenting with that as soon as I get a
second 2.6 system to play with.
Chris
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