[newbie] Newb needs FreeSWAN with Mdk8.2 and Win98/SSH Sentinel

[Tommy Eaton]

Hi there,   I need to setup a VPN connection from a mandrake 8.2 box and a Win98 client running SSH Sentinel.  Unfortunately I have been having a rather rough time... I've read a few docs but unfortunately not all of it is clear.  Recently I came across this very user friendly document:   http://www.ssh.com/products/sentinel/SSH-Sentinel-1.3-FreeSWAN.pdf   This document is ideal because it provides step by step instructions from downloading the source to the final stages (plus the PDF format is a nice look). The downside is that it's for an older version of Red Hat.  I've actually thought about getting Red Hat as a last resort, but maybe you guys can enlighten me as I'd like to stay with Mandrake as much as possible...   Refering to that PDF link above, I substituted the first two chapters for # Urpmi freeswan and downloading the x509 patch from http://mairas.iki.fi/projects/ipsec/   On 3.2 it says to copy the cacert.pem to /etc/ipsec.d/cacerts/<filename>.  But since there is no /etc/ipsec.d in mdk 8.2, I copied the file to /usr/lib/ipsec.  (I also noticed in 8.2 there is /etc/freeswan directory, but that only has the ipsec.conf  and ipsec.secrets file.)  I also noticed that when they list /usr/share/ssl etc, it should be /usr/lib/ssl and so forth.   Finally I try to setup the keys/certs with SSH sentinel.  The request goes fine, the signing appears fine, but when I try to import the final signed cert, SSH doesn't seem to trust it.   Can you guys see where I might be screwing up?  Also, can you recommend a good step-by-step newbie how to that explains this mdk8.2/ssh sentinel setup that I am trying to accomplish?    Thanks in advance!