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Hello Jonathan, |
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I've been using several gentoo firewall/servers with OpenVPN for several |
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months without a single problem. I've slightly modified |
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/etc/init.d/openvpn in order to make it work more smoothly, but that's |
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it. |
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I've also tried ipsec (freeswan) and althow it's quite stabled, I think |
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OpenVPN is a better choice for a small (<20) number of tunnels (at |
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least until kernel 2.6 is released) since it's not tied to a specific |
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kernel version and allows for more than one tunnel for the same remote |
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network (redundant routes). |
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Cheers, |
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--- Paulo Loureiro. |
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On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 15:00, Jonathan S. Romero wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I have become incredibly disenchanted with hardware firewall/VPN solutions. |
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> Almost every one on the market that I used is a crippled version of something |
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> that could be made from a linux system. The manufacturers also charge |
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> licensing fees for encryption algorithms that are not included by default. |
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> I for a while thought i had found a cost effective solution with the Netgear |
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> FSV318 VPN router (it has tons of features for vpn), and it was cheap 150$. |
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> But the thing crashes under heavy vpn load and reboots. |
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> I am thinking about building a new firewall/vpn system with gentoo, does |
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> anyone on this list use two gentoo systems as VPN endpoints? |
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> -Jonathan S. Romero |
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