VPN/IPSEC tunnel

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Dec 4 21:58:54 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 13:41 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 13:32:04 -0430
> Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 18:57 +0100, Luc MAIGNAN wrote:
> > > Is openVPN can make IPSec tunnels or just SSL ?
> > 
> > I believe it's fully IPSec compliant. 
> 
> Nope. Openvpn uses it's own ssl based protocol. It cannot directly
> interoperate with ipsec tunnels. ;) 

You're right. Teach me to mouth off without checking first :-(

> That said, if you have control over both endpoints, IMHO openvpn is a
> vastly better choice than ipsec. 

+1

poc



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