VPN to RHEL 3

[Steve Buehler]

	I am running a RHEL 3 ES box using kernel kernel-smp-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL and 
use up2date to update the kernel to new releases.  I have never built a 
custom kernel before.  I have been trying to get a VPN server working on 
it.  I have tried to use 3 sites to do the build of the new kernel with vpn 
server support.  I can't seem to find two sites that I had tried to follow 
step by step instructions on now.  Not sure if it matters anyway since they 
either weren't for RHEL 3 or assumed that you were an expert in rebuilding 
a kernel (one actually stated that assumption)....which I am not.  So I 
tried to combine the two vpn sites with the RHEL 3 manual on custom-kernel 
builds.
https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-custom-kernel-modularized.html 
No luck.
	Does anybody know of a site that gives specific/detailed/step by step 
directions to get a VPN server running on a RHEL 3 box?
	On a side note, can anybody tell me why RHEL doesn't just go ahead and put 
that support into its Kernels?  From what I understand.  Once I put in a 
kernel with VPN support....since it has to be a custom built kernel, I will 
never be able to use RedHat's "up2date" feature anymore to keep the kernel 
updated.  I will always have to custom build my kernel if I wanted to keep 
it updated.  Better yet.....is there a place that has rpm kernel-smp's for 
RHEL 3 ES that have it built in so that I can just install them as an rpm 
instead of trying to rebuild the kernel?

Thanks
Steve