On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:24:36PM -0400, Crisler, Jon wrote: > 2) Is the VPN solution in the form of a hardware or firewall device, > perhaps from Cisco, Nortel, TIS etc.? In that case, you normally would > run a matching vendors software component, such as Cisco's VPN package > for Linux to a Cisco VPN Concentrator. I don't have a lot of experience > in interoperability in this area: I take it on faith that there is > little to none. IOW - if you have a Cisco hw product, you are required > to use a Cisco VPN sw package. > For those with more VPN experience than I, I would love to hear some > comments on interoperability. You can use vpnc to connect to Cisco VPN concentrators. Much nicer than the binary kernel module from Cisco, in fact. <http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/> -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 73 degrees Fahrenheit.