[ale] IPSec client for Linux?

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Tue Jun 14 19:47:31 EDT 2005


That looks cool.  Is anyone here using it to allow remote winbloze XP
laptops access to the corporate net?

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 18:54 -0400, Brian MacLeod wrote:
> Equipment?  As in, off the shelf, or something you can build?  If it
> is something you can build, OpenVPN might work for you.
> 
> http://openvpn.net
> 
> bnm
> 
> 
> On 6/14/05, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> > I need to deploy some VPN equipment at my office.  I was thinking of
> > using PopTop with the Windows XP built in client but I'm afraid that
> > might not be good enough.  I need something solid.  Ideas?
> > 
> > On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 16:56 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > > I've have used the Linux version of CiscoVPN with good success.
> > >
> > > I am presently using vpnc (open source) as it lets me manually control
> > > routes that CiscoVPN forces on me.  For instance, at work the network in
> > > France is 192.168.84.0, but that is the same for me somewhere else.  So
> > > if I use CiscoVPN then I am forced to change my home and other places to
> > > use networks not used at work.  With vpnc all I have to is add routes
> > > (even /32s) to the tun0 device for the subnets that I want routed over
> > > the vpn.  One thing to know if you plan on using vpnc: if you don't know
> > > your IPSec group "secret" (password) for your VPN, just cut-copy-paste
> > > the encrypted "enc_GroupPwd" from your .pcf file into this form and it
> > > will decrypt it for you:
> > > http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/bin/cisco-decode
> > >
> > > hth,
> > >
> > > -Jim P.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 15:36 -0500, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> > > > Does anyone VPN in to their employer's network using anykind of IPSec client
> > > > for Linux?
> > > >
> > > > If I had a solution for that, I think I could stop using windows. On
> > > > Windows, I'm currently using a Cisco IPsec client to access a customer VPN
> > > > and a Lucent IPsec client to access Lucent's network.
> > > >
> > > > I know that FC3 has a IPsec client.  Has anyone ever gotten it to work?
> > >
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