[LUNI] VPN Software on Linux?

[Samir Faci]

So....   I take it Openvpn has a slight edge over everything else...
just a smidge.

Thx everyone for the info, and yeah, I'd love the configs, since pretty
much everything I've done is in gentoo these days.

--
Samir

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 14:56 -0700, Ramin K wrote:
> Samir Faci wrote:
> > So here goes.
> > 
> >   I spent a little bit of time on wireless encryption and found out that
> > pretty much both wep and wpa are worthless and can be cracked too damn
> > easely for comfort.
> > 
> > I'd like to setup a forced vpn authentication/encrytpion etc.... leave
> > the AP open but unless you're vpned in, it's worthless.
> > 
> > I have a vague idea on how to do this, though I'm not too worried about
> > the details yet.  My question is this...
> > 
> > OpenSwan, FreeSwan, OpenVPN and any other variations?  
> > 
> > Is there one in particular I should use?  Adv/Disadvantages?  Is one
> > more secure then the rest (I know it depends on the admin, and the
> > configuration...etc... but overall? )
> 
> Q. Which one takes 30 minutes and next to no brain power to setup?
> A. OpenVPN
> 
> Q. Which one works through NAT from your laptop when you're out traveling.
> A. OpenVPN
> 
> Q. Which one fails the above tests, has strange interoperability 
> problems, can't traverse NAT contrary to docs (at least I haven't 
> figured it out in the past two days), and has crappy docs on top of it?
> A. OpenSWAN.
> 
> YMMV and probably will, but I'd still recommend OpenVPN... and I have 
> real working configs for Gentoo (server and client) and Windows clients 
> as well if you want them.
> 
> Ramin