On 18 November 2011 09:34, Chris Malton <chrism@???> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:37:46 +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>>
>> I would recommend IPSEC but I have really bad experiences with
>> anything talking to the Windows implementation of IPSEC.
>> For example, Linux, Juniper, Cisco and most firewalls that support
>> IPSEC VPNs fail to work to a Windows machine.
>> The IPSEC connection works, but as soon as a rekey happens it all
>> falls apart.
>
> That's not my experience..... I've just set up a new IPsec server which
> seems to work OK with Windows and Linux clients. Not tried Mac OS, but it
> will probably be OK.
>
> Just whatever you do, if you're using openswan, build it from source
> tarballs... The Debian stable packages are very, very, broken with xL2TPd,
> and other l2tp implementations.
>
> I even had to have the horrific issue of the IPsec server behind a NAT. Once
> I ironed out a few creases, it worked near enough first time.
>
Maybe I did not make the set up clear.
The problem case was the Windows box being the central VPN
Gateway/server and after a period of time connections would start
failing.
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