topic Re: VPN in smoothwall in Operating System - Linux

VPN in smoothwall

Muhammad Imran Hussain — Wed, 28 May 2003 13:49:28 GMT

hi

somebody tell me about that product for web proxy, Firewall, VPN, IDS. Currently i 'm using ISA server for above mention jobs now i want to use opensource with respect to this i install smoothwall, get success in configuring web proxy but the VPN configuration is confusing. In my scenario my field force team members use VPN tunnels to get into our corporate office network, ISA successfully doing this job. how can i do this with smoothwall.

Plz guide me
thanks

Re: VPN in smoothwall

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 28 May 2003 13:38:32 GMT

Allow me to reccoment another open source solution.

iptables
configured for vpn

Here are some docs to help yo uset that up.

iptables, the modern stateless firewall.

http://www.linuxguruz.com/iptables/howto/iptables-HOWTO-6.html

http://www.netfilter.org/unreliable-guides/packet-filtering-HOWTO/packet-filtering-HOWTO.linuxdoc-7.html

VPN how-tos
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/VPN-HOWTO/index.html

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/VPN.html

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/VPN-Masquerade-HOWTO.html

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Cipe+Masq.html

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/ppp-ssh/index.html

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Cipe+Masq.html

SEP

Re: VPN in smoothwall

Jerome Henry — Wed, 28 May 2003 13:39:29 GMT

BTW, you can also do all that stuff on a standard redhat box (look at http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/HOWTO/VPN-Masquerade-HOWTO.php3 ), but smoothwall is so security oriented that it should be easier to set up.

Re: VPN in smoothwall

Muhammad Imran Hussain — Wed, 28 May 2003 13:51:33 GMT

hello

thanks for quick response

in my present scenario i'm using ISA server & it does all jobs proxy, firewall, vpn in single machine. could rh box service these all things in a single machine(stupid question).

plz guide me to do this quickly. i offer points for this

thanks in advance

Re: VPN in smoothwall

Jerome Henry — Wed, 28 May 2003 14:07:02 GMT

The VPN solution m$ compatible for Smoothwall is called freeswan.
Get information and download here :
http://www.freeswan.org/intro.html
hth
J

Re: VPN in smoothwall

Jerome Henry — Wed, 28 May 2003 16:01:03 GMT

The answer is yes !
Read Steven's link on the general purposes, and
http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/
for the RH installations details and specs, all you need is here (read security guide, then installation and so on if you choose to install)..
Smoothwall will do it too from a single box, it's a linux system, as is Redhat.
Do not hesitate to ask for details on reading the docs.
BTW, I hope you offered points for this first thread too ! ;-))
J

Re: VPN in smoothwall

John Collier — Thu, 29 May 2003 20:17:00 GMT

Muhammad,

Are you trying to use the free SmoothWall application or the corporate one? If it is the free application and this is nothing more than a small business application then you may be able to get some specific assistance from the SmoothWall users mailing reflector. I know they were of some pretty good assistance to me when I was trying to get my smoothie set up.

Let me know if you need the reflectors main web address???

Re: VPN in smoothwall

Muhammad Imran Hussain — Fri, 30 May 2003 04:20:23 GMT

hi

i download it from the site & i think it's normal version not corporate.