On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 04:14:17PM +0100, Paul Jakma mentioned:
> > gnu date is limited by time_t.  but i thought time_t expired in 2037?
> > this seems to show it expiring in 2038:
> course, on UltraSparc, x86-64, IA64, alpha, etc:
May I assume that x86-64 will be able to use a 64bit time_t too?

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Niall O Broin <niall@linux.ie>, ilug@linux.ie
From ilug-admin@linux.ie  Mon Sep  2 13:14:40 2002

I need to setup a VPN between a few sites. From what I've read, the the
choices come down (on the Linux side) to IPsec (using FreeSWAN) or CIPE.
It seems that FreeSWAN is 'better', being an implementation of IPsec which
is a standard. However, CIPE does the job as well for Linux clients and is
somewhat simpler to setup.
The problem is that it's not a pure Linux situation - a couple of the sites
run OS-X. I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to find an implementation of
IPsec for OS-X, but I think CIPE is Linux only.
So, the question is for those of you have have implemented BOTH - is there a
significant difference in setup time and hassle between CIPE and FreeSWAN ?
If CIPE is going to be much easier than dealing with FreeSWAN (and whatever
on the OS-X sites) then I'll simply get a Linux box for each of the remote
sites - with the low price of hardware, it doesn't take much more complexity
in software to make buying hardware to use simpler software economic.
Niall
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