[ale] VPN'ing

[John Wells]

Ick.  If you can stay away from pptp, do so.  Besides, something about a
using something designed by Microsoft for security on a Linux box just
seems wrong.

John

Jonathan Glass said:
> Quoting Matthew Brown <matthew.brown at cordata.net>:
>
>> Has anyone tried using Linux as a VPN server for Windows clients to
>> connect through?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Matthew Brown, President
>> CorData, Inc.
>> O: (770) 795-0089
>> F: (404) 806-4855
>> E: matthew.brown at cordata.net
>>
>>
>
> I did this using pptp on a RedHat 7.1 box (stock).  I got everything
> setup for testing (no encryption), and everything worked fine.  Then the
> project was dropped, so I didn't get to go beyond that.  Total time to
> setup the server (rpm packages) was one day...mostly due to a lack of
> knowledge about the whole process.
>
> Jonathan Glass
> Systems Support Specialist II
> IBB/BME
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> F: 404-892-2291
>
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