[KLUG Members] Wireless Access Point recommendation?

[Bruce Smith]

> Bruce’s reference to the Jan/Feb Paranoid Penguin how to series on a
> FreeS/WAN VPN is great, but in the article Nick Bauer makes a point to say
> that FreeS/WAN is exclusively Linux. So, I had discounted FreeS/WAN for a
> VPN because the laptop users will be on windbloz until our developer
> finishes porting all our mission critical apps to Linux. We won’t be all
> Linux for at least two years.

Yes, FreeS/WAN is Linux only, BUT FreeS/WAN runs the standard IPSEC
protocol, and you can have Windows clients.  There are a lot of articles
telling how to make Windows clients work with a Linux FreeS/WAN server.

You don't have to be all Linux.  ALL you need is ONE Linux box running
FreeS/WAN.  Clients can be anything that supports IPSEC.  Windows,
Linux, MAC, ...

The IPSEC client software _may_ cost money for Windows (never checked
into it), but not much is free in the Windows world.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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