heya, i've been grinding away to get a VPN setup where i can have win xp clients connect to my openbsd firewall and access the network behind it. i have tried a number of things, none of which have yet worked for all my users. i am very much interested in hearing from other admins who have currently working solutions along these lines. i have setup isakmpd between my home and my business location, so i know i am not a complete idiot when it comes to this stuff ;).
when i tried to use the native windows IPsec implementation, both as described in http://openbsd.cz/~pruzicka/vpn.html and through the confusing GUI, i was not able to get anywhere. when i used ipseccmd.exe, it would not give me any useful debugging outputs and crashed a couple times while i was trying to set this up. i would very much like to have a setup using the native IPsec in win xp, but am utterly in the dark as to the win xp configuration side of things. i have also setup openvpn, which works great for me from home, and i have been able to successfully get this working. however, one of the users that connects to my VPN is having problems making openvpn and his kerio firewall "play nice", and a working openvpn configuration cannot survive a reboot due to win xp being such a great OS. i am also aware of "the green bow" VPN client that is known to interoperate with isakmpd. i have avoided using this solution since i know it to be a resource hog on win xp. anybody else's views on this software would be nice. anything that you think could help me get a VPN with win xp talking to my openbsd firewall would be awesome. i would love a "howto" for the win xp boxes, but a smack with the cluestick is likely all i need. it would be nice for this to NOT use certificates, as i'd like to get a shared secret setup working first, then switch to certs later. cheers, jake
