On Sunday 24 January 2010 21:38:23 Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > Hi, > > since I am a while out of the game of doing ipsec with Linux: > What's the way to go? Strongswan/Openswan or ipsec-tools for kame/racoon.
Openswan is simpler to configure, although I have not tried it yet. I have however tried to establish a racoon based VPN connection to a router and after I wasted an awful lot of time I gave up. :-( I think my problem was that I hadn't set up sysctl (amidst other things) to forward connections correctly. Either way I found the whole IPSec/Racoon experience ridiculously complicated compared to say, ssh. > Emerge -p gave me some ~ for ipsec-tools while openswan goes without. IPSec-tools will fail to compile lately. To overcome this you need to emerge ~ARCH linux-headers and then emerge ipsec-tools (there's a bug about it). You can downgrade linux-headers after you emerge ipsec-tools. > Any input welcome. I need this for a road warrior setup. Well, if you need VPN, you need VPN. Personally, I would try to setup a ssh tunnel (using the -D flag) or another SOCKS5 proxy of some sort at home for this purpose and play with mtu sizes to get it to work without fragmentation. If you use ssh I would recommend using public keys and remove passwd authentication. However, if you succeed in setting up a VPN connection for road warrior usage please write a HOWTO! I will happily try it to see if it will work with my router. ;-) -- Regards, Mick
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