Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:36:56 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Jess Fiorelli <jfiorelli@schwartz-pr.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VPN: Windows client to FreeBSD? Message-ID: <omt1puoff0kko1ve27shfhfkhfkshehemv@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <mailman.1032810722.83478.fquestions-l@lists.sentex.ca> References: <mailman.1032810722.83478.fquestions-l@lists.sentex.ca>
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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
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