VPN's with Netgear or Linksys.

[Keith Morse]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Wil McGilvery wrote:

> I have a Freeswan VPN server set up at work. Remote access has been straight forward because most people have not used routers at home. This is now changing and I am wondering what product I could recommend for people to use at home.
> 
> I don't wish to offer a software solution because I do not wish to support a pc in someone's basement. I do want them to be able to connect to my server at work.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 


Well, from the replies I've seen, Linux bigotry is alive and well.  
Imagine that on this list?   My offering will be in the same vein.


A low end pc, pentium class is my preference.  A stripped distribution 
loaded on it with Freeswan compiled in.  Or, one of the custom 
firewall/router/gateway distributions such as Smoothwall, 
ClarkConnect, Microtik which comes with Freeswan I believe.  At the very 
least,  a Freeswan to Freeswan implementation will be the most compatible 
and easist to implement.