From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 14:11:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39E0137B401 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:11:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.sentex.ca (smtp2.sentex.ca [199.212.134.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9596443E42 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:11:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from house (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp2.sentex.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id g8ONarDg005082; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:36:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: Jess Fiorelli Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VPN: Windows client to FreeBSD? Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:36:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23 Sep 2002 15:36:49 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you = wrote: > Hello. I'm looking into setting up a VPN so that people at home with >cable modems/dsl/etc can connect into our corporate network. I've >looked at a bunch of ipsec how-to's (using racoon mostly), but they all >seem to be geared towards a setup that connects two freeBSD machines >together and passes packets securely between them. I'd like to use SSH >sentinel, or some other free Windows based client on one end, and then >the freebsd box with VPN software running on the other to connect the >client to the work network as though it were physically plugged into it. > >What can I use to do this? Most of the users use Windows 98 at home, so >they don't have any built in ipsec programs. The description of the >linksys BEFVP41 is pretty similar to what I'd like to setup.=20 >http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=3D23&prid=3D411 That would probably work. Another option is to use mpd = (/usr/ports/net/mpd) on the FreeBSD side and let the Windows clients use MS PPTP. If you are aware of the security limitations / issues of PPTP and you are OK with = them you should be fine. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message