On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 14:22, Tom O'Neill wrote: > What is the best way to setup a VPN with Open Source software? I have read > about freeSwan but is there other options? > > Thanks! Are there other options? Yes. Better than FreeSwan? Probably not, if security matters to you. And since you are asking about VPN, I will assume security is an issue :-) PoPToP does PPTP, but PPTP is generally regarded as less secure than IPSec. SSH can be used to create a VPN, but as far as I know it does not support commonly-required functions like SMB network browsing. I'd be happy to have someone prove me wrong. But FreeSwan is really pretty easy to work with, once you read the docs a couple of times and make sure you understand the concepts behind an IPSec-based VPN. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA "If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code." _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list