OpenVPN [was: IPSec VPN docs]

[Mark Haney]

On 26 Mar 2004 11:34:34 -0800, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> 
wrote:


> 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,
>
Yes I know that.  I wasn't really tied to the DLink firewall (a 
firewall/VPN appliance) but it is setup for a VPN so I would have really 
preferred that to setting up another VPN, however, if this works, then I 
really don't care.