Ubuntu, Sonicwall, and OpenSwan, Part 0
I’ve worked for the same company since 2004. They are based in the DC area. When I moved back to Seattle in 2008, I became a remote employee and it works out fairly well (though I admit I miss being in the office sometimes!).
My laptop is 4+ years old now and starting to show signs of impending death. I’d like to replace it with a non-Windows, non-OS X laptop (be it some flavor of Linux or FreeBSD or whatever). I think this will help me work on some of my side code projects.
However, due to my remote employee status, I definitely need it to be able to connect to the office vpn and our Windows-based servers and my Windows-based development machine. Caveat: I do not want to use a VM for this.
So after some searching, I see a lot of people are using OpenSwan to connect to a Sonicwall appliance from Ubuntu (pelago, openswan, ghacks).
I am going to try it out.
Ubuntu, Sonicwall, and OpenSwan Part 1 | xantha.org posted: 09 May at 9:49
[...] I am attempting to get OpenSwan on Ubuntu 10.04 to connect to a Sonicwall appliance at my Windows-centric office so I can work remotely from an Ubuntu-based laptop (read part 0). [...]
Ubuntu, Sonicwall, and OpenSwan Part 2 | xantha.org posted: 09 May at 16:54
[...] the process of getting an Ubuntu 10.04 machine to connect to a Sonicwall appliance at my office (part 0), I followed documentation and ran into an error of “Informational Exchange message must be [...]