Fedora, Public School budgets, Volunteerism??

[Ken Jones]

Thank you for the quick responses.

Presently the district has a pair of T-1 lines going to the high school 
and lots of fractional T-1's connecting the central office and the other 
school buildings to the high school.  They went the E-Rate route when it 
became available.  (This is a long story not appropriate for fedora-list.)

I do not have a definite plan.  I was looking for a network of like 
minded folks.  IPsec is my plan.  FreeSWAN my thought.  I have Fedora 1 
running fine with Fedora 2 sitting on disk ready for a good excuse to 
make the move.

Ken Jones

Christopher K. Johnson wrote:

> Ken Jones wrote:
>
>> Our Public School district needs VPN, but feels it can not afford it.
>>
>> I am a retired CISCO Techie with Aurora (Ansel) and Fedora Core1 
>> networked in my spare bedroom.
>>
>> I have the idea that I could volunteer my LINUX skills to the 
>> District (a strict MicroSoft house) by building and maintaining for 
>> them a software freebie VPN system.
>>
>> It would seem that with the present budget crunches our public school 
>> districts, LINUX, plus volunteerism make a natural combo.
>>
>> Do any of you know others doing anything similar?  If so, please put 
>> me in touch.
>>
>> Ken Jones
>>
>>
> I expect to be doing that for a local school Union here this summer.
> If IPsec VPN is what you are looking for I recommend using FC2.  It is 
> straight-forward to implement and is working for me in test 
> environments.  I wrote an OOo Impress document about it which I will 
> be using at a Linux workshop next Monday.  I'll revise that based on 
> feedback from the session and share it with the list sometime next week.
>
> Chris
>