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On 18/06/11 12:05, Adrian Midgley wrote: > There is something in the book of Linux hacks with the swiss army > knife on the front, but I found it complicated and it seemed to time > out or something. > > A conversational script asking what you want to connect to what for > what, and then telling off a daemon to keep that going would perhaps > be a useful little utility. In Debian Squeeze (and I presume Ubuntu and similar distros) most of the VPN clients (OpenVPN, IPSEC, L2TP etc) can be configured graphically in GNOME via network-manager and plugins. I found the graphic clients worked in GNOME and not in KDE, despite in most cases using the same underlying software, although that may reflect inherited weirdness in my KDE config. OpenVPN server set-up was a little convoluted as the process walks you through creating a certificate authority (using a script), but working through the manual "how to" my OpenVPN VPN Debian to Debian worked first time using the command line. Getting Windows 7 client to work was more interesting, although even there once we got the latest release candidate and learnt the magic for delegating permission to add routes, it wasn't too bad. As such OpenVPN is my VPN of choice now, even if creating a certificate authority is a bit of overkill IMHO. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq