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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: VPN, an off topic question
In-Reply-To: <19981112124934.A9667@hindenburg.eboai.org> from "Jason T. Nelson" at "Nov 12, 98 12:49:34 pm"
To: jtn@eboai.org (Jason T. Nelson)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:43:00 -0800 (PST)
Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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Jason T. Nelson writes:
> > This is what PPTP does.. it's like PPP where you replace the word
> > "modem" with the word "Internet". M$oft sells client and server software
> > (the clients are free -- download "microsoft dial-up networking 1.3").
> > 
> > I don't know of any freely available FreeBSD software for doing PPTP.
> > Using an NT server is proabaly the quickest way to get it working.
> 
> Ugh. PPTP is riddled with holes; search for "PPTP security" on any 
> search engine to find out why. Right now, I'm using the KAME IPsec
> stack to connect two FreeBSD boxes using IPsec over IPv4. You get
> an additional benefit of getting IPv4 over IPv4 (IPIP) tunneling
> as well if you don't want the overhead of IPsec.

Yes, PPTP is about what you'd expect from Microsoft security-wise.
However, it's the only instance of what the original poster asked
for that runs on *Win95* that I know of..

-Archie

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