[ale] VPN recommendations?

Robert Hoffman rob at frankenlinux.com
Tue Jun 27 19:35:47 EDT 2000


Thanks Joe,

The clients will all be Win NT except for a wretched little 98 laptop that managed to slip through the ordering filters. The 98 machine's days are numbered though ;-) so assume the clients are all NT.

-Rob

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Joe Knapka <jknapka at earthlink.net>
To: ale at ale.org
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:30:56 -0600

>Do you get to choose the client platform as well, or will you have
>to deal with heterogenous clients?
>
>I'd have to guess that if you're starting from ground zero, it
>would be best to use an IPSec solution (which theoretically
>should be platform-neutral), but I've never done it, so I don't
>have an informed opinion about that.
>
>I use the ppp-over-ssh scheme described in the O'Reilly book
>"Virtual Private Networks" (Scott, Wolfe, & Erwin) to VPN
>my entire home network of Linux and M$ machines with my
>employer's network. I've built a set of scripts for maintaining
>the link (and updated everything to work with the recent versions
>of pppd - the book and the HOWTO are a bit out of date), and
>until recently it has always just worked. Now that I'm on RoadRunner
>instead of Charter Pipeline I've been having some problems with
>ssh connections, though - don't know just why yet.
>
>Of course, the ppp/ssh solution requires Linux, or at least some variety
>of Unix, to act as the tunnel endpoints on both ends (though
>the rest of the machines on each net can be any platform you
>like).
>
>My employer has bought into some proprietary Cicso VPN
>scheme; they're sending me a client for that, so I'll let you know
>how it goes.
>
>-- Joe Knapka
>(now relocated from west GA to El Paso, TX)
>
>Robert Hoffman wrote:
>
>> I am soon going to be tasked with providing vpn access to my network. It will be used for cvs, file server, and mail access. I have not set up a VPN before so any recommendations and/or tips would be appreciated.
>>
>> I would prefer to use Linux or FreeBSD as the OS. My FreeBSD experience is limited as I just installed it for the first time today.
>>
>> Thx in advance,
>>
>> -Rob Hoffman
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