vpn

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:24:36PM -0400, Crisler, Jon wrote:
> 2) Is the VPN solution in the form of a hardware or firewall device,
> perhaps from Cisco, Nortel, TIS etc.?  In that case, you normally would
> run a matching vendors software component, such as Cisco's VPN package
> for Linux to a Cisco VPN Concentrator.  I don't have a lot of experience
> in interoperability in this area: I take it on faith that there is
> little to none.  IOW - if you have a Cisco hw product, you are required
> to use a Cisco VPN sw package.
> For those with more VPN experience than I, I would love to hear some
> comments on interoperability.

You can use vpnc to connect to Cisco VPN concentrators. Much nicer than the
binary kernel module from Cisco, in fact.

<http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/>


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