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and Commercial VPN |
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| l | Advantages of
Linux VPN (FreeSWAN) |
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| l | Cost savings |
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| l | Expandability
(Hardware and Kernel |
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| Configuration-
prototype) |
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| l | Load Sharing
capabilities (more than one VPN |
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| machines in
parallel) |
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| l | More support in
open source community |
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| l | Disadvantages of
Linux VPN |
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| l | Difficult to
build and configure |
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| l | Difficult to
maintain |
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| l | With one
machine, might be slower than hardware |
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| accelerated
encryption |
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