[ale] VPN Protocol Question

[Michael Hirsch]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Andrew Grieser <agrieser at gmail.com> wrote:
> By "...probably have to set up OpenVpn on that system" do you mean
> that this is my only option, or that I would have to install OpenVPN
> on the system?
>
> What I'm looking for is the easiest solution that gets the job done.
> The three options I listed (IPsec, OpenVPN, PPTP) were the three
> options under the VPN menu of the pfSense web interface, so I assume
> it is already set up to do any of those.
>
> I see that network manager has the ability to configure OpenVPN
> (client side), so that would be a plus. However, after reading some
> OpenVPN docs I can't tell for sure if it is easy/possible to forward
> everything through the vpn connection.

OpenVPN has been the easiest setup of any VPN I'd had to use.  It is
quite simple and straightforward.  IPsec was horrible the last time I
tried it.

Michael