vpn
Openswan fun
I’m currently trying to build a VPN tunnel to a work-related ISP in order to have transparent VPN access instead of using the Cisco VPN client. So far, I have managed to build the ipsec module for a 2.6 kernel, going “back to the roots” because the standard Debian ways of building modules wouldn’t work with the provided source code packages. In the end, I downloaded the Openswan source code and compiled it directly, ignoring the usual Debian way. This worked out fine and I have a loadable ipsec kernel module now. Right now, I’m working on the ipsec configuration, trying to get the tunnel initiation work over NAT. I’ll keep posting on this topic in order to describe progress and pitfalls.
OpenVPN vs. Vista
Being a happy XP user, I am glad that this problem does not affect me. However, should you run into trouble using OpenVPN on Vista, read that article :)