Re: Looking for pointer to VPN / IPSEC info

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009, Joe Kraft wrote:
I have a personal network behind a FreeBSD firewall running IPFW. It's been
working fine for years, but as I'm getting more mobile in my work I'd like
to be able to access my network while traveling.

At work the problem is solved with an IPSEC VPN client that I run to connect
to the appropriate server. As I looked through my normal traveling gear my
laptop (Windows XP Pro) and handheld (iPaq 211) both seem to have IPSEC
clients built in.

Can someone point me to a VPN for dummies documentation so I can set up my
firewall to also provide me an access point for me to connect to my home
network while I'm travelling?

We usually use OpenVPN rather than IPSec as it's generally easier
to set up, works from roaming systems behind NAT firewalls, and
there are easy-to-use clients for Windows, OS X, Linux, and
various other flavors of Unix. OpenVPN uses user-space SSL, and
does not require any kernel support.

Bill
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