Linux VPN Server

[Doran Barton]

Not long ago, Mitch Anderson proclaimed...
> I was wondering if anyone knew of a good how-to for setting up a linux
> router as a VPN server?  I've been looking and haven't really found
> anything other than vague descriptions... Any help would be great.

It really largely depends on what kind of VPN you want to build. If you
want to support Windows-based clients and you want to use the PPTP stuff on
Windows clients, then check out PoPToP for Linux:

  < http://www.poptop.org/ > 

If you're trying to connect two subnets together over a VPN, I would
recommend cipe, tinc, or vtun. I've been the most impressed with cipe. Red
Hat's network configuration tool supports building CIPE tunnels out of the
box, which is nice.

  < http://sites.inka.de/bigred/devel/cipe.html > 

  < http://tinc.nl.linux.org/ > 

  < http://vtun.sf.net/ > 

FreeSWAN is a free IPSec implementation as well.

  < http://www.freeswan.org/ > 

There's a decent book called "Building Linux Virtual Private Networks":

  < http://www.buildinglinuxvpns.net/ >

-=Fozz

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