I was playing with this to try to set up some vpns
I would like my laptop to automagically create a VPN to work when I'm at home and to my home server when I'm at work
I was trying to use the xinetd files and the home and office sample configs.
Is there something that would prevent my from using the sample files on the same LAN? I was trying to create a VPN from 192.168.2.2 (using the office sample) to my laptop at 192.168.2.192 (using the home sample)
Do the defaults in the sample scripts need to be uncommented or are they internal program defaults?
Florin Andrei (florin@andrei.myip.org) wrote:
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 11:24, Mark Haney wrote:
Hey thanks for that. I might try that if the DLINK people can't give me what I need. I found a FreeSWAN doc about setting up an IPSec VPN from a DLINK firewall but it was in Russian, and since my Russian is rusty (*cough, non existant, cough*), it really hasn't helped much. If FreeSWAN doesn't jive, I'll try that with the DLINK.
Just remember, OpenVPN is not based on IPSec and it cannot interoperate with IPSec-based VPN devices. I'm not sure what your DLINK thing is, but if it's some kind of VPN server appliance, and it's based on IPSec, an OpenVPN client will not be able to connect to it; so, you cannot try OpenVPN "with the DLINK".
What you can do, though, is to install a Linux box and configure it as an OpenVPN server. Quite a few people are actually using their Linux firewalls as OpenVPN servers - maybe not the absolute best idea from a technical p.o.v., but it's cheap and simple (it's the situation described in the howto on fedoranews.org).
Good luck,
On 26 Mar 2004 11:06:25 -0800, Florin Andrei florin@andrei.myip.org wrote:
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 12:07, Mark Haney wrote:
I'm trying to get a VPN setup between my FC1 box at home and a DLink DFL300 at my office so I can do some things securely without having to make the 30 minute drive in to work to fix stuff. I've googled the subject and the amount of documentation is pretty immense. Can someone give me a shortened version what I need to configure or point me to a good step by step doc on how to do it?
Well, if IPSec is not a specific requirement, and if you actually could use any VPN solution that's simple to install, secure and feature-rich, have a look at OpenVPN:
http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/
A brief "cookbook recipe" HOWTO:
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/florin_andrei/openvpn/
IPSec VPN (like FreeS/WAN) is nice because it's compatible with all kinds of VPN devices and software. However, it can be a pain to install, even more so if you're using Windows clients (but Linux is not a lot simpler, especially if you have non-geek users). Also, it is very, very picky if there are firewalls in between, especially if you go through NAT.
OpenVPN is very simple to install, it does not require weird kernel patches, it is firewall-friendly, works just fine with Windows (and Solaris, and BSD), can tunnel through proxies, etc.
It is not a typical "SSL VPN" - i mean, it is not a browser-based VPN, even though it's using SSL to encrypt the tunnel. Think of it as exactly the same thing as FreeS/WAN except it's using SSL instead of IPSec; otherwise, it can route arbitrary IP protocols, it does not require a browser, etc. Just like FreeS/WAN, but without the pain.
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