VPN?

[Trevor Benson]

I would suggest going with Poptop.  It is relatively strait forward, it uses
microsofts built in VPN clients, mind you if its not Win2k you might have to
install, remove, reinstall to get the VPN adapters to work properly in Win98
(some bug in MS's install of the adapter causes this every so often). And
then the server side is very simple.  Watch your proxyarp would be my main
suggestion, as their explanation of how the system uses it is not very
clear.  I had a VPN up and running with the basic CHAP authentication within
about 2 hours. That includes a basic server install of RedHat 6.1 on a P166,
compiling ssh for replacing telnet, and compiling poptop.  So if you already
have a server and don't intend on ssh I would assume this would be a fairly
quick setup, moving to more secure authentication takes a bit, and possibly
some patching depending on the system.  


Thanks,
Trevor

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Andrew Judge [mailto:andyj at aerobuilders.com] 
Sent:	Sunday, April 29, 2001 7:29 AM
To:	samba at lists.samba.org
Subject:	RE: VPN?

VPN server software does exist for Linux.  Try www.freeswan.org or
www.potop.de.  Those are the two most popular free ones I've seen and
represent ipsec and pptp respectively.  I have tried freeswan, but you need
a third party client for road warriors with windows (usually pgpnet -
expensive).  I believe poptop supports the pptp client in MS win.  You will
also have to patch your kernel for freeswan which is pretty straight
forward, but the configuration can be tricky (at least for me) for client
and server depending on your site.

Best regards,

Andrew Judge

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
Behalf Of Joachim Feise
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 7:21 AM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: VPN?

If you want to run a VPN server on a Linux box, you would
need the appropriate software to do so. I have no idea if
a VPN server for Linux exists, you may want to search on the
usual Web sites for it. I have experimented with VPN (PPTP)
clients on Linux some time back.


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