On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:57:50PM -0600, Chad and Doria Skinner wrote:
: > The easiest answer?  Don't use a bridge.  If you do your VPN using
: > FreeSWAN, it will work properly, and you will have the benefits of using
: > IPSec (reliable, heavily tested, inter-operability with other VPN
: > solutions,
: > etc.).
: 
: I thought about using cipe directly, but I don't know a thing about
: FreeSWAN. From my understanding cipe would not work for my situation. The
: problem is that the linux box on the second network is not a gateway, but a
: client to the Linksys DSL router. I was thinking of using a bridge since it
: cause the linux box to listen to all traffic and forward it through a tunnel
: to my linux fw/router on the other network.
: 
: Will FreeSWAN work for this type of setup?

No.  THe other end will have to be an IPSec device.  For that matter, I don't
think bridging will work either, since each endpoint would have to be a 
multihomed machine.

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