Fedora, Public School budgets, Volunteerism??

[Ed K.]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Ken Jones wrote:
> Thank you for the quick responses.
>
> Presently the district has a pair of T-1 lines going to the high school and 
> lots of fractional T-1's connecting the central office and the other school 
> buildings to the high school.  They went the E-Rate route when it became 
> available.  (This is a long story not appropriate for fedora-list.)
>
> I do not have a definite plan.  I was looking for a network of like minded 
> folks.  IPsec is my plan.  FreeSWAN my thought.  I have Fedora 1 running fine 
> with Fedora 2 sitting on disk ready for a good excuse to make the move.
>
> Ken Jones
>
> Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
>
>> 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

I suggest openvpn. easy implementation for windows and linux clients.
http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/

ed

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