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RE: VPN on NT
From: "Keith.Morgan" <Keith.Morgan () Terradon com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 09:51:02 -0500
I've run Windows NT RRAS to PopTop VPN's. I've also deployed linux ipchains based firewalls using PopTop for remote access. My experience has been as follows: Ipchains and ipmasqadm have worked beautifully. PopTop has worked well WITHOUT mppe encryption, and mschapv2. Working implementations for me have not encluded Microsoft encryption, and have relied upon CHAP for authentication to the pptpd. Attempting to install the PPPD patches under slackware linux to allow the pptp encryption has never worked for me, and at least once was disastrous. (the patches modify kernel include files... they rendered my system useless until I was able to recompile a clean kernel). If anyone has any *good* documentation for getting microsoft encryption working on Slackware Linux 4.0 - 7.1, I'd *LOVE* to see it.
-----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Feldman [mailto:Jonathan () chathamcounty org] Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 9:34 PM To: firewall-wizards () nfr com; jjn () peoplelink com Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] VPN on NT PoPToP for Linux (PPTP server) seems to work ok from a functionality standpoint - and it's free. The benefit, of course, is that every Win9x/NT box in the universe has a free client for it. I've used it VERY casually, and have not done extensive lab tests viz performance or security. I know that MS's initial implementation of PPTP was thoroughly lambasted by Schier among others; I'd be interested in whether folks have done a similar study of PoPToP. Anyone? Cheers, --Jonathan Chatham County ICS http://chathamcounty.org Contributing Editor, Network Computing Magazine http://nwc.com "Teach Yourself Network Troubleshooting" "Network+ Exam Guide" http://feldman.orgJeremy Noetzelman <jjn () peoplelink com> 10/26 4:02 PM >>>I'm looking to find a good (preferably free) VPN product for NT/98 use, the server should be unix based ... right now we use FreeSWAN for unix VPN, but we need a good solid windows client to grant the windows users remote vpn access. Anyone have any pointers? J -- Jeremy Noetzelman Director of Network Architecture PeopleLink _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://www.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://www.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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