VPN Linux

[MaJeztik]

Hey guys,

Have any of you setup a VPN using linux before? If so what software did you use & how did you find using it?

I can do it through windows but those skills will be wasted in years to come.

Appreciate any info.

Thanx :)

[wolfpac181]

You mean as a server or as a client?

[Thyraeus]

I can do it through windows but those skills will be wasted in years to come.

Dude that is a quote I remember from 6 years ago ........... like it or not MS skills will always be useful - just look at the 'Post you Desktop Screenshot' forum ...nearly everyone.

Not that one is better than the other [not going near that one] good luck - I am sure there are plenty of robust solutions - I think there are even some platform independant ones - I let you know.

[wolfpac181]

Dude that is a quote I remember from 6 years ago ........... like it or not MS skills will always be useful - just look at the 'Post you Desktop Screenshot' forum ...nearly everyone.


Only reason I use it is for games... everything else, nix and Mac.

[jambo]

I'm pretty sure Mandrake (the most user friendly Linux distro) has a VPN package.

[wolfpac181]

Bam!!!! (http://sourceforge.net/projects/openvpn/)

There ya go.

[druid]

Personally I think IPSec (http://www.openswan.org/) is the way to go.

[dimeslime]

Poptop (http://www.poptop.org/). Easy to setup and manage windows/mac users on it. There are problems with routing GRE on older ADSL modems though.

I found that ipsec is more for server-server connections, and pptp is better for client-server. I say this because Windows 2000 doesn't have a proper ipsec/l2tp client (unless you pay for cisco)...

[Kez]

Okay, so if I want to set up a VPN to allow people to effectively LAN over the internet to my place, what will be required to do that? Same shit as listed here?

[Juice Biscuit]

Okay, so if I want to set up a VPN to allow people to effectively LAN over the internet to my place, what will be required to do that? Same shit as listed here?
Give Mandrake MNF a go it should give you a nice GUI for the configuration. Its like the other firewall distro's, but better.

[druid]

I found that ipsec is more for server-server connections, and pptp is better for client-server. I say this because Windows 2000 doesn't have a proper ipsec/l2tp client (unless you pay for cisco)...

PPTP is far from secure though, removing the 'P' from VPN...

[exekewtable]

openvpn is the best vpn client server by far. ipsec is a bitch on linux and the entire protocol is a mess. once I switched to openvpn, all my vpn headaches went away. its even got a windows version

[MaJeztik]

Thyraeus, i know MS skills will always be required but alot of the enterprise customers my company has have recently changed to linux. This is one of the primary reasons i want to learn how to do it in linux.

I recently visited a customer site & i was referred to www.freeswan.org .

i might check it out, but ill also have a look at openvpn too.

thanx guys.

[exekewtable]

i seriously wouldn't bother with freeswan.
aside from the fact it kinda closed down and was replaced by openswan and superswan, openvpn is soo much easier to setup. I have deployed alot of both types and when i discovered openvpn and tested it, i switched all my clients i could over to it.

[Juice Biscuit]

Didn't freeswan bite the dust a while ago?

[MaJeztik]

cheers for that exekewtable :)

i wasnt aware of that, i printed all the doccos off last night. Lucky i didnt start anything yet lol.