[plug] Centos openvpn question if I could

[Ian Kent]

On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 11:50 +0800, Chris Griffin wrote:
> Systemd is the other reason i am bumping Fedora.

Systemd will still catch up with you in CentOS-7 I expect.

> 
> On 31/01/2012 9:20 AM, "Andrew Cooks" <acooks at gmail.com> wrote:
>         On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Ian Kent <raven at themaw.net>
>         wrote:
>                 
>                 > It looks good but I have installed openvpn
>                 (openswan) and rpm tells me
>                 > it is there but the /etc/openvpn directory is not
>                 there nor is the
>                 > /etc/init.d/openvpn startup script.
>                 
>                 Obviously you won't find that in an openswan install
>                 since it would
>                 conflict with the init script in an openvpn install.
>         
>         
>         OpenVPN and Openswan will not necessarily clash, unless the
>         init scripts make incorrect assumptions about TUN/TAP
>         interfaces. Each service should have its own init script.
>         (systemd is yet another thing to trip you in Fedora 15).
>         
>         
>         As a side note, Openswan is an ipsec implementation which
>         works on the TCP/UDP layer of the network, whereas OpenVPN
>         works like any "normal application" on top of TCP/UDP. Ipsec
>         can be really hard to use in the NATed networks and dynamic
>         IPs that are common today, whereas an ssl-over-udp tunnel like
>         OpenVPN is relatively simple, so don't switch if you can help
>         it.
>         
>         
>         A.
>         
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