[TriLUG] VPN suggestions

[Mark Fowle]

Right now I am using RH8 as a firewall - I've been looking at OpenVPN,
but this seemed a little easier to do. OpenVPN just seems like a
bear...(at least so far)


On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 14:34, Jon Carnes wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 14:10, Mark Fowle wrote:
> > Does it need an external IP address - or can you open and forward a port
> > from the firewall to the VPN ?
> > 
> 
> It really depends on your firewall and whether it can forward IPSec.  An
> OpenBSD firewall can, as can a Linksys or Dlink appliance.  Most
> firewalls that can *forward* IPSec can also *do* IPSec, so their would
> be no need to put a Linksys BEFVP41 on the corporate network - just use
> the existing firewall (assuming it's not some POS from Checkpoint that
> charges you an arm and a leg to use IPSec).
> 
> Jon Carnes
-- 
Mark Fowle
mark at thefowles.com

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