On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Gary Stainburn wrote: > On Wednesday 21 August 2002 9:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Hi, > > > > > I am looking for a reliable VPN server software for RedHat 7.3. > > I should be able to establish tunnels with Checkpoint, Intel Shiva and > > Cisco PIX based VPN boxes. Can someone point me in the right direction? > > If these boxes talk IPSec, then have a look at FreeSWAN. If they talk anything > else then I can't help. > > > This VPN server should also be able to accept connections from dial-up > > users running Windows OSes. > > You can configure your RH box to handle dial-in users, using a mixture of > mgetty and pppd. It's a long time since I did this and it's probably changed > a lot since then so my best suggestion would be to look up the HOWTO. > > These days my users use their own ISP connections and VPN into me. > > Historically, Windows boxes talk PPTP although I believe the later ones may > have IPSec now too. You can configure your RH box to support PPTP, and by > configuring your kernel, I believe it will also support encryption. This is > not something I've ever done. >
Its my understanding that Microsoft has provided an updated ipsec client for the range of Windows operating systems for free. Sorry, I don't know where it is on their website. But some judicious searching should come up with a hit. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
