From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 6 01:14:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95873106566B for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 01:14:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8690C8FC16 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 01:14:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) Received: from [192.168.5.128] (mail8.stratech.com [71.16.66.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m261EEZn098312; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:14:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:14:09 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <47CF2B0B.2090905@student.utwente.nl> In-Reply-To: <47CF2B0B.2090905@student.utwente.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803052014.09394.john@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: "Alphons \"Fonz\" van Werven" Subject: Re: VPN - Which way to go? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:14:18 -0000 On Wednesday 05 March 2008 06:21:47 pm Alphons "Fonz" van Werven wrote: > I need to setup a VPN connection to the university's network. Now, > there's a chapter in the handbook about "VPN over IPsec" and there > seems to be this thing called OpenVPN in the ports collection. Which is > the better way to go? All I need is to obtain an IP address within the > university's IP range (because otherwise I can't use their outgoing > STMP), that's all. So as simple a solution as possible would be > preferred. Unless you control a machine on the university side you'll have to use something interoperable with their setup. I think OpenVPN is great and use it regularly, but as far as I know it only interoperates with OpenVPN, and I'd be surprised if your university were using it. See what you can find out about the setup on the other side. If they have some sort of generic setup guide for Windows users you can probably deduce from that. If it's a straight PPTP VPN (like you'd use with Windows' "dial-up networking" sans IPSEC) you can use net/poptop. If they require some kind of client then you may or may not be able to get it to work, but do ask again if you learn more about what's on the other side and get stuck. JN