[ale] VPN'ing

[Geoffrey]

pptp is known to be less secure then ipsec.  Further, as other's have 
noted, why go with a substandard closed source solution when you have 
freeswan???

Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> Actually pptp works well.  Create a tunnel on your firewall and set a
> route, just make sure the box is very secure.  I did this and it worked
> very cleanly.
> 
> 
> Thus spake John Wells (jb at sourceillustrated.com):
> 
> 
>>Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:38:24 -0400 (EDT)
>>From: "John Wells" <jb at sourceillustrated.com>
>>To: <jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu>
>>Cc: <ale at ale.org>
>>X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.8)
>>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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