Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:07:49 -0500 From: "Norman C. Rice" <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, wjw@IAEhv.nl Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VPN, an off topic question Message-ID: <19981112140749.A23925@emu.sourcee.com> In-Reply-To: <199811121744.JAA19212@bubba.whistle.com>; from Archie Cobbs on Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 09:44:04AM -0800 References: <199811120839.JAA01253@surf.IAE.nl> <199811121744.JAA19212@bubba.whistle.com>
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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
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