> think an acceptable user-land alternative might be openvpn. I would I don't think openvpn would easily handle such large number of connections, it would be also a configuration nightmare. tinc was designed to handle such scenario, but I wouldn't use anything user-land for ~100 lans, no metter how maintainable the configuration is. I guess best bet is kernel 2.6.x and racoon-based key management.
Oh, and btw, if you're going to use FreeS/WAN, better look at http://www.openswan.org, they've got the good code. ( and backwards compatbile, if you've got frees/wan based network and want to upgrade to 2.4.25 you're out of luck with free s/wan - they migrated to 2.x with never kernel, and it means you need to upgrade your userland tools, and probably tune configuration a bit. Openswan works nicely with upgrades ). -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]