[ale] VPN'ing

[Matthew Brown]

The M$ client also supports L2TP - an IPSec protocol.  Is this one
better?  Does it have Linux support?

Best regards,
Matthew Brown, President
CorData, Inc.
O: (770) 795-0089
F: (404) 806-4855
E: matthew.brown at cordata.net


-----Original Message-----
From: John Wells [mailto:jb at sourceillustrated.com] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 10:38 AM
To: jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] VPN'ing


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
> V: 404-385-0127
> F: 404-892-2291
>
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