On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 12:30:30PM +0800, Marvin T. Pascual wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 12:14 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > > > > If you'd be using a 2.6 kernel - you have to include the IPSec tools. > > I'd be using Kernel-2.4 series here. >
Then you'll need OpenS/WAN and the Pluto IKE userspace daemon that OpenS/WAN uses. > That means that having a 200Mhz processor with 16MB RAM is not > sufficient for a VPN client box? Depends on the amount of bandwidth flowing through your VPN box. If it's greater than, oh, maybe, 128 kbps*, you could have high packet loss and high latency. If you can live with that, yeah, it will be sufficient. But if your application is videoconferencing, VOIP, or something similar, I gather it would be unacceptable. * This is a rough ballpark figure. -- Democracy needs citizens, not consumers. When people are merely consumers of politics, they are more easily manipulated. And in our time conformism is stronger than in the past. http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.q-linux.com (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
