VPN help ....

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008, Ben Duncan wrote:
> I have some new clients using some LINKSYS VPN Routers.
>
> I need to make one of Linux Workstations connect into their network so I can
> do some contract programming.
>
> I am running Slackware 12.0 , what Do I need to go about making this happen ?

The Linksys VPNs I've used (BEFVP41s primarily) use IPSec.

I am not familiar with Slackware, but the current method of handling IPSec
on 2.6 kernels seems to be ipsec-tools racoon.  FreeS/WAN was often used on
2.4 and perhaps earlier kernels.

Bill
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