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On Sunday 24 January 2010 21:38:23 Konstantinos Agouros wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> since I am a while out of the game of doing ipsec with Linux: |
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> What's the way to go? Strongswan/Openswan or ipsec-tools for kame/racoon. |
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Openswan is simpler to configure, although I have not tried it yet. I have |
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however tried to establish a racoon based VPN connection to a router and after |
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I wasted an awful lot of time I gave up. :-( |
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I think my problem was that I hadn't set up sysctl (amidst other things) to |
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forward connections correctly. Either way I found the whole IPSec/Racoon |
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experience ridiculously complicated compared to say, ssh. |
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> Emerge -p gave me some ~ for ipsec-tools while openswan goes without. |
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IPSec-tools will fail to compile lately. To overcome this you need to emerge |
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~ARCH linux-headers and then emerge ipsec-tools (there's a bug about it). You |
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can downgrade linux-headers after you emerge ipsec-tools. |
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> Any input welcome. I need this for a road warrior setup. |
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Well, if you need VPN, you need VPN. Personally, I would try to setup a ssh |
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tunnel (using the -D flag) or another SOCKS5 proxy of some sort at home for |
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this purpose and play with mtu sizes to get it to work without fragmentation. |
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If you use ssh I would recommend using public keys and remove passwd |
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authentication. |
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However, if you succeed in setting up a VPN connection for road warrior usage |
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please write a HOWTO! I will happily try it to see if it will work with my |
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router. ;-) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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