Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] StrongSWAN vs OpenSwan

[John J. <jo...@jo...>]

Hi all,
I too was surprised to see this, I'm in the middle of trying to implement a=
 VPN tunnel using L2TP/IPSEC to an Microsoft ISA firewall, and came across =
the same web pages.

One feature I noticed was:
Feature

strongswan-4.1.5

openswan-3.0.00

Windows IKE support

No

yes


I confess to not knowing anything about IKE or IPSEC, but it can't be a bad=
 thing if I need to interact with Microsoft products...
Would it be possible to know more about why DL is converting to strongswan =
instead of openswan?


Regards,
John Jore


From: dev...@li... [mailto:devil-linux=
-dis...@li...] On Behalf Of Jasper Siepkes
Sent: 6. september 2007 20:22
To: Devil Linux
Subject: [Devil-Linux-discuss] StrongSWAN vs OpenSwan

Hi all,

I noted that OpenSwan was recently replaced by StrongSwan. Out of curiosity=
; Why was this ? I saw an other thread on the mailinglist which stated that=
 strongswan was built on top of openswan with extra features. As far as I k=
now, this is not the case and were both forked from the freeswan project (I=
 Could be missing something tough..).

I'm by no means a *Swan expert, but this comparison looks to be leaning to =
Openswan: http://wiki.openswan.org/index.php/Openswan/FeatureComparison

Yes its on the openswan page :-) But StrongSwan http://www.strongswan.org/ =
linkes to the feature comparison. I doubt they would link to it if they wou=
ld find it unfair.

Kinds regards,

Jasper