vpn recommendation?
debianists:
not to start a religious war (famous last words) but which
woody-friendly vpn packages would y'all recommend? i'd like
to hear about config troubles, feature holes, proprietary
gotchas, etc. i looked into some of these on potato and had
just enough trouble to be discouraging; now, i may actually
be able to utilize a vpn, so experienced perspectives will
be very helpful...
$ apt-cache search vpn
freeswan - IPSEC utilities for FreeSWan
secvpn - Secure Virtual Private Network (secvpn)
tunnelv - Encrypted network connection within a TCP/IP connection
vpnd - Virtual Private Network Daemon
pptp-linux - Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) Client
pptpd - PoPToP Point to Point Tunneling Server
tinc - Virtual Private Network daemon
cipe-source - Encrypted IP tunnels over UDP (source)
cipe-common - Common files for CIPE VPN software
and for vpn'ing from BEHIND a firewall, it's possible to just
port-forward the vpn port from publicIP-to-vpnserverIP, right?
or is there more handwaving involved?
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I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0;
Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #38 from Alvin Oga <aoga@Mail.Linux-Consulting.com>
:
Curious about your NETWORK TRAFFIC? There's a whole bunch of
ways to monitor it: iptraf, showtraf, netwatch, tcpview, statnet,
or even
tcpdump | grep 'what you want to see'
lsof -i | grep 'LISTEN'
For network statistics try "mrtg". See the ethernet section
over at http://www.Linux-Sec.net/
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
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