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Date:      Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:01:47 -0500
From:      Jim Durham <durham@jcdurham.com>
To:        Marcin Jessa <yazzy@ezunix.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VPN and roaming Windows 2K users
Message-ID:  <200211201001.47980.durham@jcdurham.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021120100754.GB68431@yazzy.org>
References:  <20021120100754.GB68431@yazzy.org>

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On Wednesday 20 November 2002 05:07 am, Marcin M. Jessa wrote:
> Do you know how to make a FreeBSD firewall a VPN server for roaming Win=
2K
> boxes (Win2k users without static IP's)? I've been playing with racoon =
for
> a few days but it seems that the only way it can authenticate roaming
> Windows VLAN users is with preshared certificates.
> This again excludes usage of manual keying (pre_shared_keys) which is
> nessesary for accepting connections from dynamic IP's.                 =
   =20
>       The preshared keys method can be configured to accept connections
> from specified hostnames and that could work with windows boxes that ru=
n a
> dyndns client.  Again Windows and racoon can only communicate using
> certificates and not manual keying....an evil circle. Windows can speak
> with racoon if one makes racoon to automatically exchange keys but this
> works only if Windows clients have static IP's...
> Have any of you guys an idea about what to do to combine these methods?=
   =20
>                                                                        =
   =20
> Or maybe there is a workaround? Please squeeze your brains and let me k=
now
> about whatever you think may be of interest in this metter.

I use mpd to serve 95,98, 2000 and XP boxes using their "VPN' connection.
This seems to work well and  you can coach a remote user through the
Windows setup over the phone with minimal trouble.

I use racoon and IPSEC between offices with FreeBSD boxes on each end.

-Jim




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