Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:54:31 +1100 From: Andrew P Kaszubski Jnr <apk@dimpex.com.au> To: "'Norman C. Rice'" <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: VPN, an off topic question Message-ID: <71E707C9355FD211872F000044049AEA9606@gway.dimpex.com.au>
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Is there any way of using a FreeBSD (VPN) server to connect win95/ winNT wrkstn clients ? I would love to be able to use FreeBSD, however, all out reps that are on the road are using either win95 or winnt client machines. Thus we have had to go for the M$ PPTP option ( which apart from not being that secure, as was pointed out, is not very stable either. Regards Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Norman C. Rice [mailto:nrice@emu.sourcee.com] Sent: Friday, 13 November 1998 6:08 To: Archie Cobbs; wjw@IAEhv.nl Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG; questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VPN, an off topic question On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 09:44:04AM -0800, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Willem Jan Withagen writes: > > I'm looking for software which will let me create a VPN over open > > infrastructure, eg. cable, post, isdn, ... > > > > What I'd like is an extra layer on the TCP/IP stack for win'95 systems, > > which would give the client a second IP-number for access to the inarts of > > the company LAN. This would be through an encrypted tunnel over the already > > build public IP connection. > > > > Termination would be on a VPN-server on the company LAN, or at the firewall. > > I could be a NT-system, but prefably a FreeBSD (Linux) box. > > 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. You may want to take a look at the following URL before using NT's PPTP implementation. http://www.counterpane.com/pptp.html -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. > > -Archie > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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