Solar Designer wrote: >>Does Owl has got some kind of VPN software reccomended to make virtual >>networks? >>I want to use FreeS/WAN and want to make sure of there's no other software >>already included in Owl (or as a package grabbed from Owl ftp). > > > We don't package such software yet, although we may do so in the > future. At the moment I'm not sure whether we'll go with CIPE or > FreeS/WAN. > > BTW, our userland includes patches to losetup and mount to support the > international (crypto) kernel patch (encrypted filesystems). And the > kernel patch includes CIPE. So that may better fit the "one way to do > a thing" / "one implementation of a feature" rule. > > Feedback from the Owl user community is welcome and may well affect > the decision. Myself would prefer FreeS/WAN since that is IPsec, and CIPE is more to be considered "homebrew". Note: I dont have any grudge against CIPE at all, but with FreeS/WAN I can talk IPsec to routers, firewalls and all.. Something I cannot do with CIPE. Best regards, Jimmy. -- Jimmy Wiklund, Clavister AB +46-(0)660-299225 PGP: http://www.clavister.com/pgp-keys/jiwi.key.asc --- The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin
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