[nycbug-talk] Connecting a MacOS X client to an isakmpd VPN server...

[Andy Michaels]

On Thu, 3 May 2007, Miles Nordin wrote:

>>>>>> "bas" == Brian A Seklecki <lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org> writes:
>
>   bas> Right now (as in, I stopped to reply to this), I'm having
>   bas> moderate success using racoon(8) 0.7x with Cisco VPN Client
>   bas> 4.x.
>
> how about NAT traversal?  and on which BSD?
>
> and is it a good idea to buy Cisco's VPN client for Mac OS X, or is
> there something better-integrated that comes with Mac OS X?
>

Thanks for the reply, Brian, I have similar questions and some 
clarification.  I'm trying to use non-commercial software, so my ideal 
setup would be:

VPN server| <--IPSEC--> | Mac using built-in Apple VPN client

on the VPN server side, I'd heard that isakmp was the simplest wrt setup 
effort.  I'm willing to look at freeswan or racoon.  I've heard freeswan 
is no fun.

-Andy