Hi, I want to setup vpn on centos 4.4. How can I do it ? What is the suitable pkg for it. I have only 2 requiremts. 1 st requirement is I want to setup a VPN SERVER on centos 4.4 on my end. It should talk to the other end. (The other end is also Centos 4.4) - pls note that I will have to set up both VPN servers. 2 nd requirement is setting up a vpn clinet (this may be Linux or windows)- wherever these clients (usually laptops) go, These clients should be able to go via VPN Server on my end. help needed? -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061205/5344c1de/attachment-0001.html>
Hi, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote:> I want to setup vpn on centos 4.4. How can I do it ? > What is the suitable pkg for it.Get the openvpn package from rpmforge (see <http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories>). It's dead easy to install if you follow the instructions from <http://openvpn.net/>. And it has clients for Windows. Ralph -- Ralph Angenendt......ra at br-online.de | .."Text processing has made it possible Bayerischer Rundfunk...80300 M?nchen | ....to right-justify any idea, even one Programmbereich.Bayern 3, Jugend und | .which cannot be justified on any other Multimedia.........Tl:089.5900.16023 | ..........grounds." -- J. Finnegan, USC -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061205/90ab2604/attachment-0001.sig>
John R Pierce wrote:> > Do you have a lot of experience with this VPN solution? Is it rock > > solid reliable? > > > openVPN is by far the cleanest, easiest to setup and easiest to use > VPN I've seen to date. It can handle LAN to LAN tunnels, client to > LAN, client to host, all sorts of combinations, its quite easy to > setup the routing, etc etc. > > it uses a simple SSL socket as its transport, so its friendly with > 'NAT' firewall/routers. > > there's a GUI client for windows, you can give that to someone, and > give them a config file for it with prebuilt public keys, they > install the GUI client, then drop the conf file into the right > directory and they are online in seconds.As an additional bonus, the GUI install, config file, and key files will all fit on a floppy! Not that floppies get all that much use these days, but I always hate to burn a CD with only 1-2 MB of data... -- Bowie
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:> openVPN is by far the cleanest, easiest to setup and easiest to use > VPN I've seen to date. It can handle LAN to LAN tunnels, client to > LAN, client to host, all sorts of combinations, its quite easy to > setup the routing, etc etc.I can't agree with this more. Also, you can configure it to run with TCP over port 443, which makes it much more likely that a network you're connected to is going to allow the connection out. Other VPN solutions use a range of ports and other protocols that may not handled as well at hotels and such. Note that you can get OpenVPN RPMs here: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/openvpn/ robert