On Monday 04 January 2010 at 23:01 (CET), Mathias Gug wrote: > I wonder how popular are IPSEC-based > VPNs nowadays?
Very. It's one of the very few VPN protocols that's has a lot of interoperability going for it. Linux, Cisco, Juniper, Windows, etc, all can speak IPsec. Also, IPsec implementation is mandatory for any IPv6 stack implementation. We currently use OpenVPN's SSL based VPNs for roadwarriors due to the ease of installation and the ability to run it over any TCP or UDP port. For our site-to-site VPNs (both within our own infrastructure and to customers) we use Openswan's IPsec based VPNs. These are more robust and the interoperability is rather important here. IPsec is IPsec, whereas SSL based implementations are all non-interoperable. That being said, I don't care much about ipsec-tools or racoon. I wouldn't mind Openswan getting some more Debian/Ubuntu love. -- Regards, Ruben Laban Systems and Network Administrator ISM eCompany -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
