Title: Linux VPN solutions - Overview

KBTAG: kben10000005
URL: http://www.securityportal.com/lskb/10000000/kben10000005.html
Date created: 20/07/2000
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Authors(s): Kurt Seifried seifried@securityportal.com
Topic: VPN's for Linux
Keywords: Network/VPN

Summary:

There exist a multitude of VPN solutions for Linux, from IPSec to PPTP.

More information:

There are several standards compliant VPN solutions for Linux such as IPSec (knowledge base article: kben10000006) and PPTP, as well as some "non-standard" solutions such as PPP+SSH that are useful for tunneling through firewalls (among other things).

Downloads:

http://www.freeswan.org/ - IPSec - kben10000006

http://www.moretonbay.com/vpn/pptp.html - PPTP (Point to Point Tunneling Protocol)

http://sites.inka.de/~W1011/devel/cipe.html CIPE (Crypto IP Encapsulation)

http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at/projects/est/ - ECLiPt Secure Tunnel

http://www.strongcrypto.com/ - Virtual Private Server

http://vtun.netpedia.net/ - Virtual Tunnel

http://www.winton.org.uk/zebedee/ - Zebedee

http://www.strongcrypto.com/ - Virtual Private Server

Notes:

I would recommend implementing IPSec if you have the option as it is the standard, and support is built into IPv6.