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Re: [Openvpn-users] TOT: The end of FreeS/WAN


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] TOT: The end of FreeS/WAN
  • From: John Locke <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 07:00:41 -0800

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


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