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Re: VPN server recommendation



On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 05:22:47PM +0200, Christopher Pharo Glæserud wrote:
> Chavdar Videff, 
> 
> > A fellow administrator suggested that we used OpenVPN.
> > The only VPN I have heard about is Poptop. 
> > 
> > Is OpenVPN a good choice? Are there better alternatives?
> 
> Insofar as I haven't used OpenVPN, I do not know if the alternatives I
> have are better or not...
> 
> I've only used FreeSwan, which does the job connecting two sites
> together. There's also OpenSwan, iirc, which is better at updating their
> stuff. (The trouble with FreeSwan was that updates happened rarely, if
> ever)
> 
FreeSWAN should only be used in legacy (i.e., existing FreeSWAN
installations).  My understanding is that it is now dead upstream.  That
is not a particularly good situation for software that relies so much on
security correctness of the code.

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr

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