[ale] VPN'ing

[Jonathan Glass]

For whatever reason (lack of time, death of project, etc) I could not figure out
 what client to use on the Windows machines to connect to a freeswan server.  I
setup the PPTP box with FREESWAN on it...but got lost on the client end.

What do you use?

THanks

Jonathan
Quoting Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net>:

> 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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> > 
> > 
> > :wq!
> >
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Robert L. Harris                
> >                                
> > DISCLAIMER:
> >       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> > FYI:
> >  perl -e 'print
> $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> > 
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> -- 
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> 
> I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
> to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
> 
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Jonathan Glass
Systems Support Specialist II
IBB/BME
V: 404-385-0127
F: 404-892-2291

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