VPN solutions with Free S/Wan and windoze

This seems to be asked many times, and never answered quite sufficiently.

We would like to offer our clients an all-in-one firewall/VPN box using
IPTables and Free S/Wan. The only trouble we have is finding a client
for the windows platform. Our Symantec client software requires username
and password (shared secret) and I'm not certain I know how to accomplish
that with Free S/Wan. I'm reading up on it, but am a bit dubious.

People have mentioned SSH Sentinel before, but I don't seem to be able to
find a copy of the old version - at least not with a license. I have an
old version, but it requires a license I don't have. :(

Any assistance in this regard would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Mairhtin O'Feannag

If I understand your question you are asking about VPN client on windows
machines. VPN with 3des support is already included into win2k and up.
So you don't need any special client on windows side.

Hope this is the answer?

Best regards!

Jure

Mairhtin O'Feannag wrote:
> This seems to be asked many times, and never answered quite sufficiently.
>
> We would like to offer our clients an all-in-one firewall/VPN box using
> IPTables and Free S/Wan. The only trouble we have is finding a client
> for the windows platform. Our Symantec client software requires username
> and password (shared secret) and I'm not certain I know how to accomplish
> that with Free S/Wan. I'm reading up on it, but am a bit dubious.
>
> People have mentioned SSH Sentinel before, but I don't seem to be able to
> find a copy of the old version - at least not with a license. I have an
> old version, but it requires a license I don't have. :(
>
> Any assistance in this regard would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mairhtin O'Feannag

Mairhtin O'Feannag wrote:
> This seems to be asked many times, and never answered quite sufficiently.
>
> We would like to offer our clients an all-in-one firewall/VPN box using
> IPTables and Free S/Wan. The only trouble we have is finding a client
> for the windows platform.
> [..]
> Any assistance in this regard would be appreciated.
>

http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/ipsec-x509.php is a great page about
setting up freeswan/win2k/xp , support is built-in in win2k/xp

Floris

"Mairhtin O'Feannag" <irishboyca@rocketmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns944CAF0FDF6Cmairhtinofeannag@64.164.98.51. ..
> This seems to be asked many times, and never answered quite sufficiently.
>
> We would like to offer our clients an all-in-one firewall/VPN box using
> IPTables and Free S/Wan. The only trouble we have is finding a client
> for the windows platform. Our Symantec client software requires username
> and password (shared secret) and I'm not certain I know how to accomplish
> that with Free S/Wan. I'm reading up on it, but am a bit dubious.
>
> People have mentioned SSH Sentinel before, but I don't seem to be able to
> find a copy of the old version - at least not with a license. I have an
> old version, but it requires a license I don't have. :(
>
> Any assistance in this regard would be appreciated.

Investigate PoPToP and the Linux PPTP client. Both interoperate well with
Windows, and are not fundamentally more or less secure than the IPSec based
mess that I find in a lot of other VPN tools.

Now, *WHY* both sets of VPN creators think it's a good idea for the client
to keep their keys in plain-text on a local file, and in matching plain-text
on the server, is why I'd like to take them all out and slap them with
bricks repeatedly. I don't *CARE* how long your damn key or password is: if
you keep it in plaiin text on both client and server, it *will* be stolen.