Has Ubuntu Replaced Windows on Your Box?

Matt Philmon mattisking at pobox.com
Wed Aug 16 06:53:11 UTC 2006


I'll be able to finally remove Windows once more is done to support VPN. 
Our office uses a SonicWall VPN. I've managed to find some documents 
that point to FreeSwan that appears to be quite old, but theoretically 
supported Sonicwall. I think OpenSwan (from what I've read) is the next 
alternative and I see a few available packages to that extent in the 
repository, but honestly, I haven't a clue which packages to install and 
how to set them up. Perhaps a future version of Ubuntu will include and 
hopefully greatly expand the work done in Suse to make VPN connections 
configurable through network-manager. Failing that, perhaps our office 
will one day switch to a more "Linux friendly" VPN device. (I don't have 
the option of purchasing a hardware VPN for "site to site" unfortunately 
because of my Vonage Linksys Router so a software solution is my only 
option right now.)

Matt Philmon




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