Re: Connect linux servers at office from home thru Sonicwall

moo_glee@yahoo.com (Moo) wrote in message news:<dd6f280a.0403302040.5b601e5d@posting.google. com>...
> Hi --
> I have some linux servers at work that I want to connect from home.
> I have a sonicwall SOHO 3/50 firewall at office. This firewall accepts
> 50 input connections from outside and can be vpn 'ed to. But I have
> never done this before. Any idea, how I can should configure vpn for
> the firewall to connect to the serverrs? Which are the softwares that
> need to be installed on the linux servers so that I can remotely
> connect to them and authenticate the users?
> I think windows server has remote access services that takes care of
> this (am not sure as I never worked on windows server), is there
> similar services like that on linux.
>
> I have redhat linux 9.0
>
> Thanks in advance for any of your help,
>
> -Al

It's going to depend on the Linux servers at the office, the OS used
by computers at "home", and the SonicWall device you're using (the
Soho3 acts as a vpn gateway).

Google is your friend:
rh9 Sonicwall vpn

From this:
http://www.sonicwall.com/services/VP...mentation.html
found this:
ftp://ftp.sonicwall.com/pub/info/vpn...l_FreeSWAN.pdf

I did notice it's a bit dated: RH7.x and the Free S/WAN 1.94 rpm that
came with it, so you'll have to make some adjustments, I'm sure.
Might help get you started.

From Google search quickly found this:
http://sun2net.com/docs/freeswan-sonicwall-psk

Also try Googling groups:
FreeSWAN and SonicWall
returns 83 hits

hth,
prg
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rdgentry1@cablelynx.com (P Gentry) wrote in message news:<facb01db.0403311616.162c1288@posting.google. com>...
> moo_glee@yahoo.com (Moo) wrote in message news:<dd6f280a.0403302040.5b601e5d@posting.google. com>...
> > Hi --
> > I have some linux servers at work that I want to connect from home.
> > I have a sonicwall SOHO 3/50 firewall at office. This firewall accepts
> > 50 input connections from outside and can be vpn 'ed to. But I have
> > never done this before. Any idea, how I can should configure vpn for
> > the firewall to connect to the serverrs? Which are the softwares that
> > need to be installed on the linux servers so that I can remotely
> > connect to them and authenticate the users?
> > I think windows server has remote access services that takes care of
> > this (am not sure as I never worked on windows server), is there
> > similar services like that on linux.
> >
> > I have redhat linux 9.0
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any of your help,
> >
> > -Al
>
> It's going to depend on the Linux servers at the office, the OS used
> by computers at "home", and the SonicWall device you're using (the
> Soho3 acts as a vpn gateway).
>
> Google is your friend:
> rh9 Sonicwall vpn
>
> From this:
> http://www.sonicwall.com/services/VP...mentation.html
> found this:
> ftp://ftp.sonicwall.com/pub/info/vpn...l_FreeSWAN.pdf
>
> I did notice it's a bit dated: RH7.x and the Free S/WAN 1.94 rpm that
> came with it, so you'll have to make some adjustments, I'm sure.
> Might help get you started.
>
> From Google search quickly found this:
> http://sun2net.com/docs/freeswan-sonicwall-psk
>
> Also try Googling groups:
> FreeSWAN and SonicWall
> returns 83 hits
>
> hth,
> prg
> email above disabled


Thanks a lot for your help, actually I had a look at freeswan
yesterday after searching on google. Thanks for the rest of the links.

regards
-Al