Re: VPN Software for RedHat

[Keith Morse <kgmorse mpcu com>]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Gary Stainburn wrote:

> On Wednesday 21 August 2002 9:29 am, harish k lntinfotech com wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >
> > I am looking for a reliable VPN server software for RedHat 7.3.
> > I should be able to establish tunnels with Checkpoint, Intel Shiva and
> > Cisco PIX based VPN boxes. Can someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> If these boxes talk IPSec, then have a look at FreeSWAN. If they talk anything 
> else then I can't help.
> 
> > This VPN server should also be able to accept connections from dial-up
> > users running Windows OSes.
> 
> You can configure your RH box to handle dial-in users, using a mixture of 
> mgetty and pppd.  It's a long time since I did this and it's probably changed 
> a lot since then so my best suggestion would be to look up the HOWTO.
> 
> These days my users use their own ISP connections and VPN into me.
> 
> Historically, Windows boxes talk PPTP although I believe the later ones may 
> have IPSec now too. You can configure your RH box to support PPTP, and by 
> configuring your kernel, I believe it will also support encryption. This is 
> not something I've ever done.
> 


Its my understanding that Microsoft has provided an updated ipsec client 
for the range of Windows operating systems for free.  Sorry, I don't know 
where it is on their website.  But some judicious searching should come up 
with a hit.