On Sunday 01 September 2002 08:55, Claus Johansen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone out there been using ipsec509 in a production environment
> with MS Windows road warrior clients?

Yep.

> I have succeeded setting it up as an experiment (after a lot of
> RTFM), but I miss some functionalities that would be crucial when
> having "ordinary users":
>
> 1.)
> There's no way to tear down a tunnel, it stays active until it times
> out. A client trying to reconnect within that period will fail.

This can be set in ipsec.conf. If you use the left/right firewall=yes
option the failed tunnel(s) will always hang until a reboot is done.

> 2.)
> There's no way to set up temporary network settings (e.g. WINS) for
> the MS clients for the duration of the connection. This means that
> they either work with the "tunneled" network and no other, or they
> will have very limited functionality through the tunnel (because of
> NetBIOS limitations).

It will work if you use Samba for your WINS resolution. NetBIOS can
be channeled through TCP/IP unlike the similar M$ NetBEUI protocol.
If your using Win2K/XP machines, your going to have problems due
to M$ breaking WINS/DNS rfc's with these OS's integrated functionality.

> If I've missed something here and there are feasible solutions, I'd
> very much like to hear about it!
> ;-)

There should be information in the mailing-lists/docs on the FreeS/WAN
site and possibly some newer work-arounds using updated Samba. If
your using M$ WINS servers your dealing with something I've never 
had much success doing in a multiple subnet setup. This type of setup
is something that Samba deals with in a much easier way, IMHO.
You may find better advice on other lists, being that this is really not
a LEAF issue per se.


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~Lynn Avants
aka Guitarlynn

guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net
http://leaf.sourceforge.net

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