[clue-tech] IPSec VPN Setup?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 18:12:45 -0700
Ski Dawg <skidawg at skidawg.org> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I have been tasked at work with setting up a VPN connection from our
> server to a client's network. The only problem is that I have never
> done anything like this before, so I am not sure where to start.
> 
> We are running CentOS 5.4 on our server. I do not yet know what the
> client is running for their VPN, the only thing I know of from the
> client, is we need to use IPSec for our VPN connection to them. I have
> been googling, and have found quite a bit of information, but it is a
> little overwhelming, as I am new to setting up a VPN. Is the a
> "standard" method for doing this sort of setup that I am missing so
> far?
> 
> If anyone has any quick pointers to get me started, that would be
> greatly appreciated.

Sadly ipsec is a pain to configure manually. ;) 

You likely want the 'openswan' package. 

And for simple setups you may be able to use 'system-config-network' to
set it up, I think it has a ipsec client config ability. 

kevin

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