[plug] Centos openvpn question if I could
Ian Kent
raven at themaw.net
Tue Jan 31 12:47:27 WST 2012
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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