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On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 21:40, Renato Salles wrote: > Few months ago we saw CIPE being demolished. > Prepare yourself OpenVPN gurus, 'cause a lot of help is expected in the > near future: FreeS/WAN is dead. > /. has the hole story at: > http://slashdot.org/articles/04/03/02/014215.shtml > > How many VPN "players" in the GPL/user-space will remain after that? > I will search a little bit more about kame & racoon ( i remember i saw > something about in the FreeBSD website some time ago) to get started. > I want to know if there is finally hope to a linux kernel ipsec VPN setup, > or it will remain "Jason X Freddy", part two. > I saw this the other day... notice that FreeS/WAN closing is mainly a political move related to the stated goals of the project: to get 5% of all Internet traffic to be encrypted. The project definitely had another agenda, beyond just providing secure tunneling between sites. It sounds like most of the FreeS/WAN developers have simply forked into the OpenS/WAN project. And the 2.6 kernels no longer need to be patched for IPSec. I'd hardly say that VPN solution is dead, just a change in management... Cheers -- John Locke Open Source solutions for small business problems http://freelock.com ____________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |