On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 00:28 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 08:18 +0000, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > > > Some issues were with the kernel, some with the layering of device > > > detection when the connection is made or at boot time. Regardless, > > > fedora doesn't have to ship a broken kernel just because it exists. > > > > This is what Fedora does, it tries to stay right on the edge and often > > tries out the newest stuff first. Sometimes it breaks thinks. So be it, > > things like that can happen. 'Someone' has to try things first and > > Fedora chooses to be one of those distros which does. If you don't like > > it go somewhere else, there are plenty others which don't do this, but > > stop complaining as your gripes are really starting to sound old now. > > Chris, there is some substance to what he's saying. At RedHat we used > ssh and cipe for working at home away from the office. It was slick. I > haven't had need to use it since, but the entire support team used it > and your passwords were established when you were hired. I've noticed > it's absence but it didn't directly affect me. I guess there is another > defacto scheme used today. Maybe Rahul would qualify what has been > chosen over cipe for internal use. Plus, Les could use that information. > Having encrypted tunneling was pretty nifty. Ric ---- cipe support never made it into 2.6 kernel OpenSWAN support became the defacto standard for VPN on Linux...it's very robust but not very simple. OpenVPN is the easier alternative and has some interesting clients for other OS's too. Craig
