[ale] VPN'ing

[Robert L. Harris]

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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