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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: John on May 25, 2001, 11:09:52 PM
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I am needing to set up a VPN, and the client has concerns about meeting the new requirements for IP-Sec / PPTP. Because he is running NT 4 workstations, he would prefer to have a firewall-to-firewall tunnel. If I understand correctly, this is how e-smith handles VPN.
Is this correct?
Thanks-
John
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John wrote:
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> I am needing to set up a VPN, and the client has concerns
> about meeting the new requirements for IP-Sec / PPTP.
These are mutually exclusive protocols.
> Because he is running NT 4 workstations, he would prefer to
> have a firewall-to-firewall tunnel. If I understand
> correctly, this is how e-smith handles VPN.
Not natively. There have been some developer contributions using FreeSwan (IPSEC) for site to site projects. Currently e-smith comes "out of the box" with client to server VPN using the (PPTP) protocol.
Justin.
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Does e-smith support a 3-DES IP-Sec tunnel?
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John wrote:
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> Does e-smith support a 3-DES IP-Sec tunnel?
Not yet, it is something I have wanted to do for a while but it looks like Jeb has something working so I have been waiting on him.
Personally I hope they skip 3DES and go straight to AES. The package will most likely support any symmetrical encryption protocol you want to use.
Justin
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is there and e.t.a. on the release of that package?
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John wrote:
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> is there and e.t.a. on the release of that package?
None that I am aware of. They are quite busy with some other features and I don't know where this would fall on the priority list.
If your looking for something immediately I would take a look at Jeb Campbell's contributed FreeSwan rpm. (keep in mind it is unsupported)
Justin