VPN options

[Keith Lofstrom]

To get things back on track, I am asking whether cipe or freeswan
have problems with Fedora, not whether comcast might, sometime in
the future, forbid VPN.  The info on comcast was to clarify
motivation and application.

The infoworld article about comcast and VPN restrictions that
mylist at gmx.net quotes is 3.5 years old, while the comcast FAQ
permitting VPN that toddb at shredsnow.com quotes is current.  In
most of the Portland area (unfortunately not in this particular
suburb) Comcast is competing with DSL, serving many customers
working for large and opinionated companies like Intel, and dealing
with a somewhat anti-corporate Oregon Public Utilities Commission.
If Comcast pulls shenanigans in Oregon,  they are likely to have
their Oregon network seized in a court battle.  In fact, it may
well be that their national TOS was liberalized in response to
legal challenges to the ATT merger brought by the Oregon PUC
(they were nearly forbidden to merge here, and though small,
we are a dense, important market).  In other states, YMMV.  But
again, my question is not about what comcast *might* do - a lot
of things *might* happen (in which case, I bury my VPN in a https
stream to a "website" on my colo, or even use steganography). 

My question was about cipe versus freeswan versus other, in the
specific context of Fedora.  I have to choose a protocol, and I
would rather avoid wasting resources on something that is hard to
get working.  Anyone have any answers to this?  If you want to
debate the comcast issue, please change the subject line, thank you.

Keith

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