On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:56:25AM -0500, Nate Carlson wrote: >Windows 2000 and XP have a built in client that works great with it, I >actually wrote documentation on configuring it a while ago: > >http://www.natecarlson.com/include/showpage.php?cat=linux&page=ipsec-x509 mmmmmmm i love real-time. > >(I know, I know, I need to rewrite my PHP stuff -- that URL is ugly.) > >For other versions of windows, or if you want a client that 'normal' >(idiot) users can deal with, check out www.ipsec.com (SSH Sentinel) -- >these guys are actually providing support for FreeS/WAN, it's pretty cool. Yeah, I saw that too. Neat stuff. I've been meaning to try this but haven't gotten to it yet. >We just set up one of our clients [speak up if you want] with a IPSec >solution where they do a Sprint dialup from laptops, and after the link is >up, the Sprint dialer automatically launches the ipsec.exe utility [which >I discuss on my page above], and brings up a VPN connection to their >corporate network. So, all the Windows user sees is a dos box come up for >a minute while it connects, and then they can browse their domain at the >office. Pretty sweet.. how much overhead does the IPSEC add to the communication between client and server? Is it negligible? I would think it would be. What about the server end, does it need to be a real ass kicker or what? -- Ben Lutgens | http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ System Administrator | http://www.sistina.com/ Sistina Software Inc. | "If you love something set it free, if it doesn't come back to you hunt it down and set it on fire" -- George Carlin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 240 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020510/833dcd52/attachment.pgp