Setting up a multi-platform VPN?

[John Morgan Salomon]

You want KAME (http://www.kame.net).  It is in 4.x.  RACCOON is just
the key management/exchange component of KAME. 
 
IPSEC (read the RFCs) is your best bet for inter-platform vpn connections.
There are a number of FreeBSD implementations, although kame is probably
your best bet for connecting to FreeSWAN/Cisco/CheckPoint/whatever.

I'd be happy to give you some tips on setting it up if you have specific
questions.

Cheers,

-John


Michael Bretterklieber wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Donald Burr of Borg wrote:
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>>Now, with my (admittedly virtually nonexistant) knowledge of VPN, I know
>>that Linux boxen tend to use FreeSWAN.  FreeBSD, on the other hand, seems
>>to use something called RACOON.  And lord knows what OS X uses (although,
>>since it's FreeBSD based, maybe RACOON can be compiled/adapted to use on
>>it too?)  (although I just did a Google search, and according to this
>>O'Reilly Network article, it seesm that OS X has its own built-in PPTP
>>implementation: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/20/vpn.html)
>>
>>Can anyone more knowledgable than I help me figure out how to get this
>>multi-platform VPN monster going?  Help!  I need some backup!!
>>
>>    
>>
>You can use MPD as PPTP server  on your 4.8 Box.
>(cd /usr/ports/net/mpd && make && make install)
>
>bye,
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