[ale] OT: FreeBSD VPN Question

[SanMillan, Todd]

"supposedly" being the operative word here.  I haven't been directly
involved, but some co-workers have been having nightmares with getting Cisco
and CheckPoint firewalls to work together via VPN.  We have had engineers
from both companies in and they still haven't gotten it working.  The
implementations are just not playing together.  YMMV

Todd SanMillan

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph A Knapka [mailto:jknapka at earthlink.net] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 8:45 AM
To: Robert Heaven
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: FreeBSD VPN Question


Robert Heaven wrote:
> 
> I know there's a few FreeBSD'ers on here so I'll ask this question.
> 
> Has anyone ever had any success getting a VPN connection between a 
> FreeBSD client and a Cisco VPN Concentrator? (unfortunately, Cisco 
> doesn't make a client for FreeBSD and I can't get the Linux client 
> from the Cisco web site unless I have a service agreement)

Cisco's VPN protocols are supposedly IPSec, so someone sufficiently
knowlegeable about IPSec, and with admin access to the Cisco box, could
almost certainly get any compliant IPSec implementation to talk to the
Cisco. Unfortunately, that is all I can tell you; I was never able to get my
*BSD box to talk to my employer's Cisco, mainly because I was too clueless
about IPSec :-P. Working on fixing that, but not far enough along to tell
you anything much useful.

Cheers,

-- Joe
  Using open-source software: free.
  Pissing Bill Gates off: priceless.

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