Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:55:37 +1100 (EST) From: Rob Hurle <rob@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a bit OT - VPN+Windows Message-ID: <20070109114313.G1380@freebsd.connect-a.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20070108220016.K55690@chylonia.3miasto.net> References: <20070108220016.K55690@chylonia.3miasto.net>
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On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > could You put me to some manual about configuring any king of VPN (with > encryption at least, preferable compression too) with windows machines as > clients and FreeBSD as servers. > > i used VPN's many times but always with unix on both sides and used vtun > which works great. unfortunately there is no vtun for windows. I have used poptop (AKA pptpd) - in the ports collection, but the really useful information is at: http://www.pingle.org/2006/04/11/getting-poptop-to-run-under-freebsd-5-6 However, two points: 1. pptpd is built for Linux. For FreeBSD user-land ppp is used, no matter what you specify, and so the config file is /etc/ppp/ppp.conf. Anything you say about this setting in /usr/local/etc/pptpd.conf is ignored, and the ppp.conf file used instead. Also, some settings are repeated in both ppp.conf and pptpd.conf - the ppp.conf settings take precedence. The ppp.conf needs to specify a label for pptpd to use, and it is: pptp: (normal ppp directives follow this) 2. You need to set your FreeBSD system to be a gateway (gateway_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf) and some routing and ARP stuff enabled in rc.conf: arpproxy_all="YES" forward_sourceroute="YES" accept_sourceroute="YES" I have it working at a fairly large site where people use XP at home and access the Windows stuff through a FreeBSD 6.1 gateway. Cheers, Rob Hurle ----------------------------------------------------- Rob Hurle Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU Home address and contacts: Tel: +61 2 6247 2397 PO Box 4013 Fax: +61 2 6247 2397 Ainslie Cell phone: 0417 293 603 Australia e-mail: rob@coombs.anu.edu.au -----------------------------------------------------
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