debianists: not to start a religious war (famous last words) but which woody-friendly vpn packages would y'all recommend? i'd like to hear about config troubles, feature holes, proprietary gotchas, etc. i looked into some of these on potato and had just enough trouble to be discouraging; now, i may actually be able to utilize a vpn, so experienced perspectives will be very helpful...
$ apt-cache search vpn freeswan - IPSEC utilities for FreeSWan secvpn - Secure Virtual Private Network (secvpn) tunnelv - Encrypted network connection within a TCP/IP connection vpnd - Virtual Private Network Daemon pptp-linux - Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) Client pptpd - PoPToP Point to Point Tunneling Server tinc - Virtual Private Network daemon cipe-source - Encrypted IP tunnels over UDP (source) cipe-common - Common files for CIPE VPN software and for vpn'ing from BEHIND a firewall, it's possible to just port-forward the vpn port from publicIP-to-vpnserverIP, right? or is there more handwaving involved? -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #38 from Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Curious about your NETWORK TRAFFIC? There's a whole bunch of ways to monitor it: iptraf, showtraf, netwatch, tcpview, statnet, or even tcpdump | grep 'what you want to see' lsof -i | grep 'LISTEN' For network statistics try "mrtg". See the ethernet section over at http://www.Linux-Sec.net/ Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]