>
> > But I suspect that getting IPSec working between my roaming laptop
> > and my home network is higher up on my To-Do,-Someday,-Hopefully
> > list..
>
> I was looking at OpenVPN as a solution.  I'm using OpenWRT on my
> Linksys, and there's already a package for it.  In fact, I plan on
> using the same setup at work to get us on to the private LAN in the
> server room.  There are nice OpenVPN clients for most OS'es.
>
> Anyway, back to homework.

Digressing fully from the topic - 
The next to be released OpenSSH version will support VPN tunneling similarly 
to how OpenVPN does it. I predict the OpenSSH will be better than OpenVPN 
once it gets some primetime use and bugs ironed out. Plus, come on, who 
doesn't use OpenSSH (besides Cisco)?