Having looked into getting VPN to work from my NT at home thru my LM7.1 firewall/IPmasq, I am annoyed ! I have read the VPN howto and linux VPN masquerade. The former is if you want to create your own local VPN. The latter one indicates that you must patch the source and recompile the kernel. I am using the Nortel Network Extranet as the VPN client on NT, which worked before adding in my linux firewall. This extranet supports IPsec and ISAKMP. IP masq is working. I went to http://www.wolfenet.com/~jhardin/ip_masq_vpn.html to get the patch, which is only 2.2.15 and saved as ip_masq_vpn-2.2.15.patch.gz except that it appears to not bein gzip format. Yes, I tried winzip and gunzip/zcat while trying to do zcat patchfile.gz | patch -l -p0 > vpn.log I've contacted the author John Hardin on this, but has anyone else got this working ? Will the 2.2.15 patch be ok within my 2.2.16 kernel ? So now I had to look into (learn) how to rebuild the linux-2.2.16-secure.mdk kernel already installed. How does the "secure" kernel get built ? Where is the option or source I need to make sure it's compiled as secure ? I got the source and RPM (and installed) after running MandrakeUpdate. Thanks... Dan.
