linux site to site VPN - client/server always on

[Red Squirrel]

I manage my own dedicated server and may possibly get more in the future (if I get into web hosting or what not).

I'd like to setup some kind of site to site VPN so I can access all of those servers as if they were local, through a secure tunnel. I'm thinking, make those servers VPN servers, then have a central server on my home LAN have an always on VPN connection to each one at the same time. I would then use this for various tasks such as monitoring, backups, etc.

How easy/hard would this be to setup and what software would I need? I'm hoping for something free. Let's assume all servers are Linux.

Also would it be better to have my LAN server be a VPN server and have the servers connect to it instead?

I don't have too much experience with VPNs in general but do have a general understanding of how they work, this would be a neat project to take on I think.

 

[sourceninja]

This might help. http://www.linuxhomenetworking...Configuring_Linux_VPNs

I've never done a perm vpn. But our current setup here at my work uses openvpn (i did set this one up). We use a windows client that connects to a ubuntu 7.10 server running openvpn. It required us to simply setup a simple config and insert some routes into our core switch. Everything works like a charm for our home workers.

 

[SammyJr]

www.openswan.org or www.openvpn.org

IPSec vs. SSL VPN

Which is better depends on your environment.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Thanks I'll take a look at those solutions.