[ale] VPN Protocol Question

[Andrew Grieser]

By "...probably have to set up OpenVpn on that system" do you mean
that this is my only option, or that I would have to install OpenVPN
on the system?

What I'm looking for is the easiest solution that gets the job done.
The three options I listed (IPsec, OpenVPN, PPTP) were the three
options under the VPN menu of the pfSense web interface, so I assume
it is already set up to do any of those.

I see that network manager has the ability to configure OpenVPN
(client side), so that would be a plus. However, after reading some
OpenVPN docs I can't tell for sure if it is easy/possible to forward
everything through the vpn connection.

Andrew


On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 02:43:20PM -0500, Dragon wrote:
> IPSec is normally hardware point to point but its the highest most 
> secure form of encryption due to the large number of encryption 
> algorithm choices.
> the other option is SSL encryption, but is less secure and needs an ssl 
> certificate, even self signed works.
> 
> OpenVPN is a server type, pptp and l2tp are transport protocols, not 
> encryption protocols.
> pptp is old school gre tunneling, and also one of the least secure. the 
> positive is its the most compatable.
> l2tp or layer 2 tunneling protocol ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L2TP )
> works over standard udp packet types and tend to work from behind most 
> firewalls and nat devices for the client side with no additional 
> configuration.
> 
> Since you say this will be on a pfSense box as an end point, you will 
> probably have to set up OpenVpn on that system ( http://openvpn.net/ ).
> 
> 
> Dragon
> 
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