VPN to RHEL 3

[Smith, Albert]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steve Buehler
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 9:22 AM
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: VPN to RHEL 3
> 
> 	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/s
> ysadmin-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
> 
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Check out this site. It's the TLDP (The Linux Documentation Project)

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/VPN-HOWTO/


Albert Smith
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
HPCSA, RHCT
Genex Services
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