Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:24:59 -0800 (PST) From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> To: Jim Durham <durham@jcdurham.com> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: VPN and roaming Windows 2K users Message-ID: <20021120112335.F16116-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> In-Reply-To: <200211201359.29955.durham@jcdurham.com>
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> > > I use racoon and IPSEC between offices with FreeBSD boxes on each end.
> >
> > Have you ever tried using vtun between the FreeBSD machines? I've never
> > used racoon/IPsec between FreeBSD machines, but I was overjoyed at the
> > simplicity and workability of vtun.
> > Just curious if anyone has used both that could compare them.
>
> Yes, I used vtun for about a year. It worked fine as long as the network
> stayed up between here and the West Coast, but, when it went down for
> any length of time, which happens quite regularly in the middle of the night,
> it wouldn't reestablish. I find that IPSEC is more robust and you don't need
> to run PPP over it (although technically, you don't have to with vtun).
> IPSEC stays up and reestablishes itself.
I've never run ipsec, but have used vtun for about 3 years b/n 4 different
DSL/cablemodem setups and it re-establishes it's connections for me... at
least I've never had a problem with it... from the man page:
persist yes|keep|no
persist mode. If yes, the client will try to
reconnect to the server after connection termina-
tion. If keep, the client will not remove and re-
add the tunXX or tapXX device when reconnecting.
If no, the client will exit (default). This option
is ignored by the server.
-philip
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