FreeSWan vs. Openswan

[Matt Patterson]

I'm not expert, but ipchains is LONG dead, its iptables now, and there 
are tons of programs/guis for dealing with its configuration. As for 
freeswan I am pretty sure there are much newer vpn packages available. I 
seem to remember a discussion just recently on this email list, so a 
quick search could be useful.

Matt



volvoguy wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I just got the good news that my web design and general computer
>techie business partner wants to use Ubuntu for our next customer
>install. (He's been a dedicated Slacker since it's inception I
>think!). Unfortunately I'm the web design guy and he's the techie, so
>I didn't have any immediate answers to a few of his questions. The
>four "must have's" that he said we need are:
>
>DHCP Server (easy)
>DNS Server (easy)
>IPChains (no clue how this works in Ubuntu. there's no "IPChains" package)
>FreeSWan (again, no clue about this in Ubuntu. Synaptic has a
>metapackage by that name that installs "Openswan" in place of
>FreeSWan. does Openswan behave enough like FreeSWan that it will work
>with other machines running FreeSWan?).
>
>My friend decided that he wants to build this customers machine
>tonight and I can't make it to his location. Hopefully the answers to
>these questions are easy. :-) If they're not, we'll probably be
>dropping by the IRC channel eventually for some assistance.
>
>Thanks!
>
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