FreeSWan just does this!
You can establish a VPN IPSEC tunnel between two sites, each one provided
with a linux gateway running FreeSWan software.
I believe that you can do this using a Cisco router at one side, but I never
tried this.
Bye
Dam
rancid moth wrote:
> hello,
>
> in a stanard cisco VPN solution one method is to user say a
> router-to-router or router-to-concentrator vpn whereby each end negotiates
> IPSEC tunnels and any traffic that is directed to hosts on the other sides
> of those VPN's are, via ACL's, directed down the tunnel.
>
> my question: is there a way of establishing the samething using linux +
> iptables. for example lets say we had two sites, A and B, A having a
> linux
> firewall, B having a cisco router/concentrator. now on B's lan there was
> a
> host C. if hosts in site A say telneted to C is there a way of
> forwarding
> those packets over a 3DES encrypted IPSEC tunnel? will freeswan do this
> or is freeswan simply a server/client solution - does it have the ability
> to establish a tunnel once it sees traffic destined for a destination and
> then have traffic forwarded through that tunnel (as with the usual cisco
> router-to-router solution)
>
> cheers
> moth
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