Re: Free VPN

IPsec is now built into the 2.6+ kernels (well the most recent ones at
least) and with the ipsec-tools installed you can probably connect to
most other ipsec implementations.

http://www.ipsec-howto.org/x277.html

Most VPNs are an implementation of ipsec.

FreeSWAN/OpenSWAN included ... most of the commercial ones for windows
... so there is usually a high degree of interoperability ... or at
least a low degree of operability beceause there are differences in
features.

Austin

G Gambill wrote:
> Openvpn it is.
>
> Eric, Craig, Thanks
>
>
>>From: "Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug@shubes.net>
>>Organization: Eric Shubert & Associates
>>Subject: Free VPN (was Re: To WEP or not to WEP (WiFi))
>>
>>G Gambill wrote:
>>
>>>Is there a free VPN that likes MS and Linux?
>>>
>>
>>For a simple VPN (if there is such a thing), I like CIPE
>>http://sites.inka.de/~bigred/devel/cipe.html
>>There is a windows version, limited to NT4.0 SP3-SP6 and Win2k. Not
>>(yet) available for Win9x or WinXP.
>>It is not a flexible as IPSec and cannot connect to IPSec tunnels, but
>>it gets the job done. You need to use it on both ends of the tunnel, and
>>it is capable of connecting two lans over the internet, or just locally.
>>
>>OpenVPN (http://openvpn.net) is very robust (more complicated), and runs
>>on Win2k/XP in addition to a slew of *nix variants.
>>

>>You might also take a look at Openswan at http://www.openswan.org
>>(formerly FreeS/WAN http://www.freeswan.org, no longer active). There
>>doesn't appear to be a windoze version of this, but it may (or may not)
>>work with another windoze IPSec implementation.
>>--
>>-Eric 'shubes'
>>"There is no such thing as the People;
>>  it is a collectivist myth.
>>  There are only individual citizens
>>  with individual wills
>>  and individual purposes."
>>-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
>>     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
>>  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237

>>
>>
>>
>>--__--__--
>>--__--__--
>>
>>Subject: Re: Free VPN (was Re: To WEP or not to WEP (WiFi))
>>From: Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>
>>Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 11:04:49 -0700
>>
>>On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:46 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
>>
>>>G Gambill wrote:
>>>
>>>>Is there a free VPN that likes MS and Linux?
>>>>
>>>
>>>For a simple VPN (if there is such a thing), I like CIPE
>>>http://sites.inka.de/~bigred/devel/cipe.html
>>>There is a windows version, limited to NT4.0 SP3-SP6 and Win2k. Not
>>>(yet) available for Win9x or WinXP.
>>>It is not a flexible as IPSec and cannot connect to IPSec tunnels, but
>>>it gets the job done. You need to use it on both ends of the
>>
>>tunnel, and
>>
>>>it is capable of connecting two lans over the internet, or just locally.
>>>
>>>OpenVPN (http://openvpn.net) is very robust (more complicated),
>>
>>and runs
>>
>>>on Win2k/XP in addition to a slew of *nix variants.
>>>
>>>You might also take a look at Openswan at http://www.openswan.org
>>>(formerly FreeS/WAN http://www.freeswan.org, no longer active). There
>>>doesn't appear to be a windoze version of this, but it may (or may not)
>>>work with another windoze IPSec implementation.
>>
>>----
>>openvpn is the one to use at the moment if you don't want to go to the
>>pain of setting up L2TP or the far less secure PPTP
>>
>>openvpn has client and server support for Macintosh, Windows and Linux
>>
>>cipe is relatively simple but not having WinXP is pointless and it's
>>been deprecated on Fedora/Red Hat so I have gone towards IPSEC and/or
>>openVPN
>>
>>Craig
>>
>
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