VPN stuff (was Re: [PLUG] Linux Firewalls Talk)

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

At 9:12 AM -0400 8/4/00, Steve Creel wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>
> >        Does that mean that you are also going to cover VPN issues,
>
> I've found that for PPTP, the PoPToP daemon works great.  With debian,
> it's the "pptpd" package.
	PPTP is a hideous protocol - you couldn't pay me to use it! 
The ONLY reason it ever got adopted in the first place, is that it 
ships with every copy of Microsoft Windows as the "default" VPN 
solution.


At 10:39 AM -0400 8/4/00, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> Anyone know of a linux server for IPSec VPNs?

	I would start with FreeS/WAN at <http://www.freeswan.org/>. 
If it's not a server, then I am sure it can point at you some since 
there are enough companies out there building appliances based on 
Linux that do IPSec.



Leonard
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