[ale] RE dial up to a VPN

[Geoffrey]

Weston, Scott wrote:
> My cable Internet provider assigns me an internal static IP behind their
> firewall. If I want a public static IP, I must VPN into their VPN server,
> which then gives me a static public IP. Can someone please recommend a VPN
> client software?

Freeswan http://www.freeswan.org although the site times out on my right 
now.

They also tend to disconnect the VPN connection if
> connected for long periods. I would also like to configure auto reconnect to
> the VPN if connection is dropped. Any Ideas on how to set this up?  I'm
> using Red Hat 7.2  Thanks, Scott

I'd get a new provider.  Is this supposed to be broadband??

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