[ale] Poptop

[Geoffrey]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 08:03, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Christopher Fowler wrote:
>>
>>>I need a VPN solution that will run on my Linux firewall and allow a
>>>Windows XP client to connect.  I'm thinking of poptop but I have an
>>>issue of routing.  Can special routing be added in poptop?  
>>>
>>>When the user connects they will be on a 192.168.2.0 subnet but I need
>>>them to use the VPN to also access 192.168.3.0 and 192.168.1.0.  Anyone
>>>tried this before?
>>
>>You'd be much better off going with an ipsec or ssh solution.  pptp is 
>>known to be much less secure and generally is not recognized as a good 
>>vpn solution.
> 
> 
> I need something easy to connect.  I want the sales rep that is on the
> road to be able to click and hit connect and then he is on our network.

There are workable solutions that don't require the insecure pptp 
protocol.  You might have to add some scripting but that's a whole lot 
better than sacrificing your security.

What about a simple ssh tunnel?

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Until later, Geoffrey