IPsec VPN on Linux

15th March 2020

Due to a work-from-home initiative, brought on by Corvid19/Coronavirus, I began looking into VPN on Linux. An option is to distribute Raspberry Pi 4 computers and have users RDP into our terminal server or their desktop. This can be done easily using a Microsoft RdWeb server. I also began looking for an IPsec VPN client for Linux, which proved surprisingly hard to find. The players seem to be Wireguard, OpenVPN, XFRM, StrongSwan, SoftEther. BUT most of those are proprietary, sigh.

Installing Snap:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install snapd

sudo snap install ike-qt –beta

Optional; install the Snap Store GUI (do this last, its a slow process)

sudo snap install snap-store

Found good list of options here