Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] RE: RE: Question about VPN

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

>> Thank you all for your advice. I cannot use IPSec
>> because I already used it on another interface [on the same DL box] to
>> encrypt wireless traffic. Meanwhile I tried the simplest scenario with
>> Openvpn
>> [with static key] and it seemed OK and straight
>> forward. Now I'm working on using RSA with that. My major concern is
>> security. I only hope that openvpn solution is secure enough
>> [paranoia!!! ;)].
>>
>
> I read a review of a bunch of Linux VPN packages awhile back, and they
> were very critical about the security of VPN's like CIPE and some others.
> (Redhat was using CIPE as their default VPN at the time)
>
>
> The only bad thing they said about OpenVPN is that their protocol is not
> the most efficient for a VPN.  They didn't say anything bad about OpenVPN's
> security.
>
> After reading that article, and I quickly switched from CIPE to OpenVPN
> and I've been very happy with OpenVPN ever since.
>
>> Bruce mentioned something about having one server
>> running for each client [applied to openvpn version in DL]. I think I
>> should be OK if I run it as a daemon or
>
> Yes, it's a daemon.  I have a couple of them running on one DL box.
>
>
>> at least that's what man page says. But as he mentioned that would be
>> great if we can have openvpn version 2 in new release of DL.
>
> Hopefully soon!  :-)

Since we have some issues which delay the release at the moment, I
uploaded a pre-release to our FTP server:
ftp://ftp.devil-linux.org/pub/devel/testing/

Please use this version only if you have to.


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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org