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On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:19 am, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	I have been asked as to whether there are any VPN applications
> that can run on UNIX clients using Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS.  I
> think the general idea is that they could tunnel in from outside of
> our campus and receive an IP number on our network.
>
> There would probably be a UNIX server on the campus end of the
> network to accept these connections.
>
> 	Those of us who work here or are students can set up a UNIX
> box on campus and use ssh in to it from anywhere.  What I am asking
> about is whether there is a VPN application that UNIX-users in
> general can register with to have a presence on our network.
>
> 	Thank you very much.
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
> OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group

You might take a look at openvpn, which is available for *BSD, Linux, 
Mac OSX. Solaris and Windows.  You can find openvpn in the ports at:

/usr/ports/security/openvpn/

The openvpn website can be found at:

http://openvpn.net/

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould