On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:30:57 +0100, Chris Johnson <chris [at] seseaz.org.uk> wrote:
Anyone got any suggestions as to where to start to learn about how to link
my LAN at home to my lan at work through VPNs over the internet? I've found
a few websites to look at but wondered if the rest of you had any favourites
that are good for starters. A lot of the sites seem concerned that you
should have windows XP client and windows 2003 server host but I don't want
it to be limited to this. Ideally I'd like both LANs to be linked rather
than 1 PC on each LAN. Can anyone see any issues with this proposal?
OpenVPN is what you want. Can be Windows (2000 or above) or Linux either end.
http://openvpn.sf.net/
You can also do this quite nicely with the IPSEC code built-in to the
Linux 2.6 kernels. It's based on KAME, so it's standards-compliant and
everything. I've got VPN tunnels running between a selection of Linux,
FreeBSD, and Cisco gateways using this method.