VPN Recommendation

[Joao Pedro Clemente]

Jason: No, OpenVPN is not for you in that scenario.
You must search for a Linux IPsec client.

Just for the record, VPN is not a "protocol" itself, is rather a generic
description for different (non-mixable) possible protocols:
IPsec, OpenVPN, pptp, are just three possible implementations that can't
be mixed (as they DO NOT follow the same protocol).


From: "Jason Voegele" <jason at jvoegele.com>
Subject: Re: VPN Recommendation
To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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On Mon, August 8, 2005 2:15 pm, Paul O'Malley said:
> Jack Jackson wrote:
>
>> Anyone using a good free VPN Client?
>>
>
> The best one I have found is OpenVPN. Look no further.

Just to be clear, is OpenVPN a client, server, or both?  I am looking for
a VPN client so that I can connect to my employer's network remotely from
my Ubuntu laptop.  The Windows VPN client that we use is Contivity, whose
Readme.txt file says:

"The Contivity VPN Client is a Windows
application that lets you create and store
connection information for tunneling into an
Extranet Access Switch connected to a remote
corporate network.  The Contivity VPN Client
uses the IPsec protocol with the ISAKMP/Oakley
Key Exchange protocol to authenticate and
secure an end-to-end connection into a remote
network."

Is OpenVPN what I'm looking for?  If not, does anyone know what I might
use?