Teo Romera wrote:
Hi all:

I am trying to set up a remote access service to a local network with an
Enterasys VPN router. I want to use IPsec for the tunneling and
certificates for user authentication.

The VPN router needs the CA to 'speak' SCEP to obtain it's own
certificate and the CA's certificate. So i need OpenCA with SCEP support
and that is why i am using the latest snapshot.

In fact, I guess that the ideal setup would be just one machine which
makes certificates for itself, the router and the clients and is
accesible to the router via SCEP.

Now my questions.

First of all, do you think this is possible? I am quite a newbie and I
am not pretty sure of what I do.

Yes, it's possible.


If I do not want to use the CA for any other kind of service, do I still
need two servers (RA and CA)?

Yes, because the CA key should never be online. If you misconfigured your router one time then don't know what is with your CA if the key is online.


If using just one machine is possible, should I set it up as a RA or as
a CA?

If you have all interfaces on one computer then the hierarchylevel is irrelevant. I hope you know what a CA and a RA is.


Michael
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