On 4/8/20 1:14 PM, Simon Hobson wrote:
> It's been a while since I last did anything with VPNs on Linux, and I recall there being 3 options, some of which were "less well supported" than others. I'm looking to setup a site-site tunnel so I can remotely access stuff at mum's (she's in isolation because of this Covid 19 stuff) and using remote desktop control, connect her Mac to a video call.
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> So what's the state of play in the VPN on Linux world - both ends would be running Devuan (one end an AMD64 VM, the other end rPi) ? Last thing I used was OpenVPN which AIUI is completely non-interoperable with anything else, while FreeSwan and OpenSwan were having a bun fight.
Good timing! WireGuard is in the kernel and version 1.0.0 has been
released. Devuan doesn't provide a package yet, but it is pretty easy to
build and install from source. I've been running it for months,
replacing OpenVPN Tunnels. WireGuard is much faster, and I found it
easier to configure and debug.

As I understand it, FreeSwan is defunct. but OpenSwan is around. Can't
comment on it, as I haven't used IPSEC VPNs

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> Simon

-Richard