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Hi,

I have a bare metal server and a VPS in one of the well known UK data centres running CentOS 7.  The bare metal server runs some ERP software that is accessible via a web browser (using SSL of course) however there is still the occasional use of an old client-side application that uses the telnet protocol to talk to the ERP system/server as well as printing requirements - Linux to networked IP printers on the LAN.  

I would like to use a hardware firewall in offices with either a VPN gateway running in the cloud or perhaps on the bare metal server running CentOS7.

Can anyone please advise me on the best way of achieving this?

Thanks
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can't you change telnet for ssh?
That is at least encrypted.

For windows there is putty for this.
(telnet, & ftp ) should be buried.... they behav like some kind of zombies rearing their head all the time.

For generic tunneling IPSEC would be the best choice.
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Hi,  

Thanks for the reply but no it is built into the application and I also need Linux to printer support using print note or lose printing.
ipsec is available for native linux. (Used by the many linux based firewalls).

The big ones are: libreswan & strongswan.   Both stem from FreesWan.
Libreswan went l2tp & extending support for it.
Strongswan started with x509 certificates as authentication ...

Both grew to a more common featureset now, and both are more or less on par now
Ok, can it do the job I need and can you please me towards any documentation to the solution please?
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