[ale] OT: FreeBSD VPN Question

[Dow Hurst]

Can you put a FreeBSD box behind the Cisco concentrator and effectively
bypass the concentrator by connecting directly thru the FreeBSD box?  I
understand that this would bypass the usual VPN, but SSH is plenty
secure enough for a backup path to your server farm.  And, are there any
solutions for a situation like this under Linux as well?  I am curious
but clueless. ;-)
Dow

Robert Heaven wrote:
> 
> I know there's a few FreeBSD'ers on here so I'll ask this question.
> 
> Has anyone ever had any success getting a VPN connection between a
> FreeBSD client and a Cisco VPN Concentrator? (unfortunately, Cisco
> doesn't make a client for FreeBSD and I can't get the Linux client from
> the Cisco web site unless I have a service agreement)
> 
> My company has a Cisco VPN Concentrator and we connect to it using a
> Cisco  VPN Client running on WinNT. (Yuk) I support about 600 FreeBSD
> servers/workstations and using PuTTY really SUX.
> 
> I've recompiled the kernel with ipsec support and loaded racoon but,
> trying to reverse engineer the Cisco configuration seems impossible.
> 
> Anyone been down this road before?
> 
> -Robert
> 
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