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Jeff Kowalczyk <jtk@xxxxxxxxx> said: > Pardon the newbie question, it must come up often because of OpenVPN's > project name. Is OpenVPN designed to be used only at both connection > ends by two unix boxes, or can it connect as a client to VPN hardware? No, OpenVPN can only connect to another machine running OpenVPN. OpenVPN is designed to be a lightweight, cross-platform, daemon-based VPN, and as such uses SSL/TLS rather than IKE for authentication and key exchange. > I have an VPN connection between offices using AdTran NetVanta units, > which use IKE policies. (I'm not sure if this is referred to as IPSec) > Once I got it set up correctly, hardware handles the VPN connection > transparently to the operating system. > > I've switched from Windows to Linux recently, and I'd like to find a VPN > client that can connect to the VPN from other locations, without using > the hardware. For Windows, the hardware vendors usually sell client > programs to connect using software encryption. They don't usually mention > whether the process is standardized enough that other VPN software will > also work. > > If OpenVPN is not designed to do that, can anyone suggest the best > open-source software that is? Thank you. You might check out freeswan.org -- This page in particular outlines freeswan's compatibility with other IPSec implementations: http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-2.00/doc/interop.html James ____________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |