On Friday 09 February 2001 10:09, John Ferlito wrote:
> Sort of related to my previous email. I was wondering what
> people out there are using on Linux to create VPN's. I've already looked
> at freeswan but to say the least it's just extremely painful and I'm
> giving up on it. Besides it's probably overkill.
>
I hear you on those sentiments. I did manage to get it going but scrapped in
in favour of strong auth instead for that particular solution.
For connections to windows machine we use very successfully poptop.
However if you don't like PPTP then it probably isnt your thing. Note that
there is a linux client and it does work.
> At the moment I'm looking at
> * vtun
> * cipe
> * tinc
> they all seem pretty much equivelant. Anyone had experience with
> these or any others and can make a recomendation one way or the other?
I've played with vtun. I didnt really think it qualified as useful because it
was specialised at doing things like compression and traffic shaping. I don't
know if it fits particularly well into the VPN scheme of things. I think they
do point back to getting FreeSWAN to work :(
>
> And no I don't want to use a PPP-SSH tunnel. I'd prefer
> something that has a real daemon running at both ends that makes sure
> itself the connection is always up without some shell script making sure
> it's so.
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