Re: Connect linux servers at office from home thru Sonicwall

From: Brian Chase (networkr0_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 03/31/04

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    Try one of the following for VPN's to your SONICwall.

    IPSEC - http://www.openswan.com/ (picked up where FreeSWAN left off)
    SSL - http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/ (SSL-based VPN, Linux2Linux)

    Moo wrote:

    > Hi --
    > I have some linux servers at work that I want to connect from home.
    > I have a sonicwall SOHO 3/50 firewall at office. This firewall accepts
    > 50 input connections from outside and can be vpn 'ed to. But I have
    > never done this before. Any idea, how I can should configure vpn for
    > the firewall to connect to the serverrs? Which are the softwares that
    > need to be installed on the linux servers so that I can remotely
    > connect to them and authenticate the users?
    > I think windows server has remote access services that takes care of
    > this (am not sure as I never worked on windows server), is there
    > similar services like that on linux.
    >
    > I have redhat linux 9.0
    >
    > Thanks in advance for any of your help,
    >
    > -Al

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