I thought I would check with the fine talent on this list before embarking on setting up a VPN for myself which I will need for at least the month of July while I do some work in Vancouver. I have been looking at both FreeSwan and OpenVPN and would like to hear peoples experiences and/or recommendations on either of these.
Ideally since I only have a few days to set this up, configuration simplicity is pretty important and I may need to access the VPN from both a Windows 2000 client and RedHat 9 client. I need to have this up and running by no later than next Saturday.
It really depends what is on the other end. Are you setting up both ends? I know I tried to get IPSEC working with a Netgear FVS318 and was unable to get proper communication. I was using the IPSEC implementation that going into the 2.6 Kernel so it wasn't FreeSwan. I tried FreeSwan first but was having trouble with it as well.
From what I have heard, OpenVPN doesn't use IPSEC so you probably would need to install it on both ends.
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