[olug] linux ppc and VPN

[Sean Edwards]

I was all excited about the VPN client tarball from
CISCO, then I encountered the libdriver.so binary,
compiled on x86.

Thank you for the reply, I will try FreeSWAN.

--- Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:
> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone
> said...
> 
> > Has anybody had any luck using CIPE or freeswan as
> a VPN client to CISCO
> > Pix? I am using yellowdog 3.0 on a PowerBook G4.
> 
> CIPE won't work, period.  It's a Linux specific VPN
> technology that goes
> over UDP/IP.  The Cisco is expecting IPsec.
> 
> That said, FreeSWAN SHOULD work as long as you're
> doing Main Mode IPsec.
> Ordinarily I'd say you should use Cisco's VPN client
> if you want to do a
> road warrior-type configuration... but you're using
> Linux on a Mac so
> that's not an option.
> 
> I say FreeSWAN SHOULD work because I've never really
> used it.  I've had
> some success with the kernel 2.6 native IPsec
> talking to Cisco IOS and
> PIX, as well as a few other operating systems.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Phil Brutsche
> phil at brutsche.us
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