[clue-tech] IPSec VPN Setup?

[Ski Dawg]

Kevin,

Thanks for the reply. I will investigate openswan further.
-- 
Doug

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On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> 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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