[ale] Linux/Windows VPN?

[Matthew Brown]

Why do you restart the VPN daily?

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 08:09, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> I've setup a few XP boxes with ipsec VPN's. Some kernel patching, some
> file mangling and boom!, a working, stable VPN through a Linux firewall.
> I went the FreesWAN route and cooked my own CA and cert since it was
> getting installed by me onto the remote machines (via VNC). I restart
> the VPN daily just before the start of business and have had no dropped
> connection issues.
> 
> On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 06:14, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > I think poptop was one I used at one time on Windows
> > 
> > poptop uses windows proprietary protocol, pptp, which is known to have 
> > significant weaknesses.  You can use ipsec with both windows and Linux.
> > 
> > Not to mention the fact, that if you use anything by M$, they're very 
> > likely to change it in such a way as to screw you up.
> > 
> > Windows XP and 2000 have ipsec support built in, but I've never used them.
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:14:49PM -0400, Nick Travis wrote:
> > > 
> > >>   I'm  setup  with  a linux firewall/router I need someone to be able to
> > >>   connect  into  my  network from a remote windows machine and have full
> > >>   access  to  all  local  machines,  i  looked  around  on freshmeat and
> > >>   sourceforge  but  couldn't  seem  to  find what I was looking for, any
> > >>   suggestions?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>   Nick

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