[Openswan Users] Windows vpn clients

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, John A. Sullivan III wrote:

> lsipsectool looks quite interesting and timely for me as I am preparing
> a moderate sized rollout of windows clients (ca. 30) for a client.  We

> Does anyone have serious production experience with it? Is it ready for
> production deployment? Thanks - John

I have tested and documented about 10-15 IPsec clients for Windows. This
client was the best by far. Both in ease of setup and of use. I did not
do any long term testing with either client, but since most clients use
the native microsoft stack anyway, most of their functionality is the
same on a kernel/packet level. Only the application frontend is different.

And frankly, there is no frontend with ipsec.exec. And for 30 clients, you
will end up explaining to them why their laptop is broken if they run
ipsec.exe, tunnel default route through the tunnel, close the laptop and
go home to open it. They will be dead in the water. At least with lsipsec,
the icon will make them aware, they can easilly reconnect, and lsipsec
itself will fail its ping and change its tray icon to RED.

I would not want to roll out ipsec.exec to customers.

Paul