Does anyone have experience setting up a VPN via open source.
My production server just ate itself and I'm trying to figure out if there is a decent VPN solution for the server that I've been building from this site's instructions.
I'm looking into OpenVPN but it's only SSL. As far as I can tell L2TP over IPSec is not going to be possible but it's what I would prefer to use since it would work natively with my Mac laptops.
It looks like Tunnelblick might be an option on the client side but I'd have to configure OpenVPN for the server.
I personally have no experience in setting this up, I rely on SSH and Remote Desktop. I hope anyone can add somthing as I'm interested in the posibilities.
scitech 25 Apr 2010
As far as open source VPN is concerned you have 3 options:
1) OpenVPN --> you can configure both server and clients with "tunnelblick". Possibly the easiest solution.
2) strongswan --> is trickier to configure and requires good handling/knowledge of the corresponding commands. No support through GUI
3) openswan/xl2tpd --> the server MUST be on a Linux machine. No support in OSX to act as a SERVER. Though OSX has native CLIENT capability.
There is a last solution but it is not open-source software. In Mac OSX (Both server and not editions) there is the "vpnd" daemon. In the non-server version it can be configured though only through the terminal. This corresponds to a native l2tp/ipsec solution for which there is native support in OSX.
If you need more help in any of these, I'd be glad to help.
16 Mar 2010
Does anyone have experience setting up a VPN via open source.
My production server just ate itself and I'm trying to figure out if there is a decent VPN solution for the server that I've been building from this site's instructions.
I'm looking into OpenVPN but it's only SSL. As far as I can tell L2TP over IPSec is not going to be possible but it's what I would prefer to use since it would work natively with my Mac laptops.
It looks like Tunnelblick might be an option on the client side but I'd have to configure OpenVPN for the server.
17 Mar 2010
I personally have no experience in setting this up, I rely on SSH and Remote Desktop. I hope anyone can add somthing as I'm interested in the posibilities.
25 Apr 2010
As far as open source VPN is concerned you have 3 options:
1) OpenVPN --> you can configure both server and clients with "tunnelblick". Possibly the easiest solution.
2) strongswan --> is trickier to configure and requires good handling/knowledge of the corresponding commands. No support through GUI
3) openswan/xl2tpd --> the server MUST be on a Linux machine. No support in OSX to act as a SERVER. Though OSX has native CLIENT capability.
There is a last solution but it is not open-source software. In Mac OSX (Both server and not editions) there is the "vpnd" daemon. In the non-server version it can be configured though only through the terminal. This corresponds to a native l2tp/ipsec solution for which there is native support in OSX.
If you need more help in any of these, I'd be glad to help.
George