Fedora, Public School budgets, Volunteerism??

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Ken Jones wrote:

> Our Public School district needs VPN, but feels it can not afford it.
>
> I am a retired CISCO Techie with Aurora (Ansel) and Fedora Core1 
> networked in my spare bedroom.
>
> I have the idea that I could volunteer my LINUX skills to the District 
> (a strict MicroSoft house) by building and maintaining for them a 
> software freebie VPN system.
>
> It would seem that with the present budget crunches our public school 
> districts, LINUX, plus volunteerism make a natural combo.
>
> Do any of you know others doing anything similar?  If so, please put 
> me in touch.
>
> Ken Jones
>
>
I expect to be doing that for a local school Union here this summer.
If IPsec VPN is what you are looking for I recommend using FC2.  It is 
straight-forward to implement and is working for me in test 
environments.  I wrote an OOo Impress document about it which I will be 
using at a Linux workshop next Monday.  I'll revise that based on 
feedback from the session and share it with the list sometime next week.

Chris

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