Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:43:00 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: jtn@eboai.org (Jason T. Nelson) Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VPN, an off topic question Message-ID: <199811122243.OAA20718@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19981112124934.A9667@hindenburg.eboai.org> from "Jason T. Nelson" at "Nov 12, 98 12:49:34 pm"
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Jason T. Nelson writes: > > 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. > > Ugh. PPTP is riddled with holes; search for "PPTP security" on any > search engine to find out why. Right now, I'm using the KAME IPsec > stack to connect two FreeBSD boxes using IPsec over IPv4. You get > an additional benefit of getting IPv4 over IPv4 (IPIP) tunneling > as well if you don't want the overhead of IPsec. Yes, PPTP is about what you'd expect from Microsoft security-wise. However, it's the only instance of what the original poster asked for that runs on *Win95* that I know of.. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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