[ale] IPSec client for Linux?

[Jim Popovitch]

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 18:41 -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I need to deploy some VPN equipment at my office.  I was thinking of
> using PopTop with the Windows XP built in client but I'm afraid that
> might not be good enough.  I need something solid.  Ideas?

Cisco is solid but can be pricey, depends on # of users.  I personally
don't have experience with other vendors.  Rolling your own VPN-host
based on Linux is probably very easy, but if you have Cisco (or other
vendor) equipment it is pretty painless.

-Jim P.

> On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 16:56 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > I've have used the Linux version of CiscoVPN with good success.  
> > 
> > I am presently using vpnc (open source) as it lets me manually control
> > routes that CiscoVPN forces on me.  For instance, at work the network in
> > France is 192.168.84.0, but that is the same for me somewhere else.  So
> > if I use CiscoVPN then I am forced to change my home and other places to
> > use networks not used at work.  With vpnc all I have to is add routes
> > (even /32s) to the tun0 device for the subnets that I want routed over
> > the vpn.  One thing to know if you plan on using vpnc: if you don't know
> > your IPSec group "secret" (password) for your VPN, just cut-copy-paste
> > the encrypted "enc_GroupPwd" from your .pcf file into this form and it
> > will decrypt it for you:
> > http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/bin/cisco-decode
> > 
> > hth,
> > 
> > -Jim P.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 15:36 -0500, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> > > Does anyone VPN in to their employer's network using anykind of IPSec client
> > > for Linux?
> > > 
> > > If I had a solution for that, I think I could stop using windows. On
> > > Windows, I'm currently using a Cisco IPsec client to access a customer VPN
> > > and a Lucent IPsec client to access Lucent's network.  
> > > 
> > > I know that FC3 has a IPsec client.  Has anyone ever gotten it to work?
> > 
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