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Message-Id: <E7944F87-15EF-469D-A53E-FCF75DE2A20F@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:22:46 +0200
From: Paulo Martinez <martinezino@...glemail.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: IPsec
Am 23.05.2011 um 13:42 schrieb (GalaxyMaster):
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:33:48PM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
>> For userland tools, there appear to be:
>>
>> Openswan - http://www.openswan.org
>
> This is my choice for IPsec tunnels right now.
>
>> strongSwan - http://www.strongswan.org
>
> Never used this one, though I expect it to be very similar to Openswan.
>
>> IPsec-Tools - http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net
>> http://www.ipsec-howto.org/x304.html
>
>
> RedHat is/was using this in their networking scripts. I find it quite
> easy to setup, however, this implementation supports a bit less than
> openswan.
>
> I've also used vpnc (http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/): a quite
> convenient client when you need to quickly deploy a VPN client.
> However, this client doesn't support tunnels with no user auth.
>
>> Which of these are most appropriate to use these days?
>
> If we are about to provide RHEL compatibility, then I'd suggest to go
> with ipsec-tools .
With the release of RHEL 5.2 RH introduces openswan beside ipsec-tools.
This seems the to be the start of the transition to openswan. RHEL 6
only provides openswan now.
Regards
PM
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