[wplug] VPN stuff

Zachary Uram netrek at gmail.com
Thu Mar 24 10:07:20 EST 2005


my friend maintains a pptp client:
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/
http://quozl.us.netrek.org/pptp/php-gtk/0-README.phtml


On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:34:35 -0800, Michael P. O Connor
<mpop at mikeoconnor.net> wrote:
> I have been readding about VPN this last week or so, and wondering if
> any one has any knolage on the subject, I will be working on
> implimenting a VPN server over the next few weeks.  The server will also
> be a VPN gateway into the network, and will be an older computer.  Here
> are some of the things I am thinking.
> 
> I am going to use the PPTP protocal (software for linux PoPTop, I was
> warnd there are some issues with PoPToP, what are those issues, and how
> can I avoid them) the reason for PPTP is since one of the requiurments
> is that I want to connect windows boxes to the network, with out much
> hassel, and PPTP is built in.  Unless some one can tell me where I could
> get a good windows IPsec client, but it needs to pass smb traffic, and
> all other kinds of traffic not just TCP/IP traffic.
> 
> I am not sure what distro to use, or even if I should use Linux (the
> book I am reading is linux centered, but if a VPN server on BSD would be
> easer I could be easly convince to use it, since it is a bit more secure
> then Linux, BSD people start you sales pitch, I will listen)
> 
> Any other thing I might be missing.
> 
> Also I plan on only haveing port 22 and what ever port I need for the
> VPN open on my router (right now I only have 22 open) and access to
> everything in my network will be done via the VPN.
> --
> Michael P. O'Connor
> mpop at mikeoconnor.net
> http://www.mikeoconnor.net
> 
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