VPN on Linux server

Hi,

This looks like a pretty thorough site on how to do what you want...

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/VPN-HOWTO.html

(remove spaces from the above URL)

Cheers,
Tim.

IP Masquerade is a feature of the Linux kernel that permits you to share secure access to the Internet. VPN Masquerade is the part of IP Masquerade which enables you to use IPsec-based and PPTP-based Virtual Private Network clients from behind a shared-access firewall.

See this link:

http://www.impsec.org/linux/masquerade/ip_masq_vpn.html

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Good luck,

Maxwell

This is what we use.

http://www.freeswan.org/

Lots of documentation.

Randy

You could try using PoPToP, the Linux based pptpd server. We're testing it and it may be what we're looking for. We've connected using Win2K machines with good luck. There is a mailing list with some Xperts hanging out as well. There are RPM's as well at some of these sites for later kernels.

Hi,

You've got a lot of diferent tipes of shapers for your VPN, by this time. They depend on your skils mostly. You may remember this :

1.- Windoze NT only uses pptp protocol with ras conections

2.- Win2K uses pptp and l2tp (as far as I've expericenced ... I haven't tested l2tp with linux)

3.- Most linux flavors can use IPSec as tunnel generator, so as Win2K

4.- The tunnel configuration of the win client may be simple and the linux configuration may be quite harder.

If you are plannig to connect to LANs with a tunnel may be you may try to configure to linux boxes as tunnel generators, and use the winboxes as network clients. That will be more performant, and the shapers that you can use may be more (cipe, ipsec, PoPToP, etc.).
Take a look to the sugested links, you will need plenty of documentation.

Good luck !

Hi again,

Here you have some other links so you can see some other VPN solutions:

www.linuxdocs.org
portal.suse.de/en
www.linux.org/docs/index.html
www.linux.org/ldp/howto/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html

PoPToP Homepage http://www.moretonbay.com/vpn/pptp.html
Download http://www.moretonbay.com/vpn/download_pptp.html

Author Matthew Ramsay
Version 1.0.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Ip masquerading :
Homepageftp://ftp.rubyriver.com/pub/jhardin/masquerade/ip_masq_vpn.html
Download
Alt Download ftp://kanon.net/pub/jhardin/masquerade/ip_masq_vpn.html

Author John D. Hardin
Version 2.2.16
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Cipe :

Homepage http://sites.inka.de/~W1011/devel/cipe.html
Download http://sites.inka.de/~W1011/sw/cipe-1.3.0.tar.gz

Author Olaf Titz
Version 1.3.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Good luck

Hi again,

Here you have some other links so you can see some other VPN solutions:

www.linuxdocs.org
portal.suse.de/en
www.linux.org/docs/index.html
www.linux.org/ldp/howto/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html

PoPToP Homepage http://www.moretonbay.com/vpn/pptp.html
Download http://www.moretonbay.com/vpn/download_pptp.html

Author Matthew Ramsay
Version 1.0.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Ip masquerading :
Homepageftp://ftp.rubyriver.com/pub/jhardin/masquerade/ip_masq_vpn.html
Download
Alt Download ftp://kanon.net/pub/jhardin/masquerade/ip_masq_vpn.html

Author John D. Hardin
Version 2.2.16
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Cipe :

Homepage http://sites.inka.de/~W1011/devel/cipe.html
Download http://sites.inka.de/~W1011/sw/cipe-1.3.0.tar.gz

Author Olaf Titz
Version 1.3.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Good luck

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