[Openswan Users]

[Andreas Steffen]

Hi Andrew,

some students of mine wrote a howto a couple of years ago:

   http://home.zhwin.ch/~sna/PA/PAK2_2002_Sna01_A.pdf

Although it was written for FreeS/WAN, it should also work
with Openswan.

Regards

Andreas

Andrew Frazer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am in need of some configuration help to create a vpn tunnel between 
> an open-swan client and checkpoint ng firewalls.  The openswan client is 
> running on open-wrt.    I have no choice but to use the Checkpoint 
> firewalls as an endpoint.  I don’t need to encrypt any traffic behind 
> the open-wrt, just from the open-wrt box itself.   
> 
> Openswan has been successfully installed.
> 
>  From what I gather, I can’t use preshared keys, and user/passwords for 
> this, and have to use certicates, as the address of the open-wrt is unknown.
> 
> I have searched high and low, ( google, the wikis, irc etc etc ) but 
> there is not a lot of interop information about this particular 
> situation.   If anyone can point me in the right direction I would be 
> very appreciative.   I would be quite prepared to pay some $$$ for 
> information if that’s what it takes.
> 
> Regards
> 
> a.

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