Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:30:23 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: rascal1981@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question regarding IPSEC Setup Message-ID: <4a5c340f.kgJItzxBrh6/yWqR%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <3228ef7c0907130809n29566514xb2c1f522e1da8a3f@mail.gmail.com> References: <3228ef7c0907130809n29566514xb2c1f522e1da8a3f@mail.gmail.com>
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rascal <rascal1981@gmail.com> wrote: > ... I have two sites, one with a cisco device and one with a > server running freebsd 7.2. The client wants to connect the two > sites using these devices and I am told that the best way would > be to establish an IPSEC tunnel between the cisco device and the > freebsd server. The cisco is a concentrator 3000 and the server > is just a dell poweredge 860 with 4 nics in the back running 7.2 > freebsd. I guess my two questions are: > > 1. Has anyone done this before and what are their results? > 2. Is setting up an IPSEC tunnel the best route for > this or is there something else I should be looking at? > 3. Any tips/tricks/good sites to check on for > setting up IPSEC on freebsd (I am currently reading > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ipsec.html > which is pretty darn good)? I am no expert, just a user: my employer uses Cisco VPN for remote access. Last I knew Cisco had VPN clients available for Windows and for (some version of) Linux. There's no official FreeBSD client AFAIK, but ports/security/vpnc seems to work well for the purpose. I have no idea how the Cisco end is set up, but have gotten the impression that it may involve some sort of Cisco proprietary extensions to IPSEC.
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