Creating a "mail gateway"

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Thu Jun 12 21:54:56 UTC 2008


Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Setting up openswan is generally very very simple.  It also handles all
> traffic types well and efficiently (no VPN should EVER use a tcp
> connection, so IPsec uses udp).
>   

I agree with this, though sometimes you may have to use TCP. OpenVPN 
supports both.
> Certainly with a pre shared key, IPsec is trivial.  With RSA keys, it's
> still pretty simple.  When using certificates, IPsec itself is pretty
> simple and nice, but generating certificates seems to be an awfully
> difficult task.
>
>   

I have also set up IPsec (on a router, not Linux) with preshared keys 
and it was not difficult.

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