Re: VPN - Which way to go?

2008-03-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: Howdy people, I need to setup a VPN connection to the university's network. Now, there's a chapter in the handbook about VPN over IPsec and there seems to be this thing called OpenVPN in the ports collection. Which is the better way to go? The handbook still

Re: VPN - Which way to go?

2008-03-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I need to setup a VPN connection to the university's network. Now, there's a you mean VPN client or client server. first case - ask what kind of VPN do they use, probably they will know about unix client second case - use ports/net/vtun if you use unix only, ports/net/mpd - windoze

Re: VPN - Which way to go?

2008-03-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am not an expert in Internet security but it seems to me that IPsec is way to go if you are serious about VPN. and vtun? it uses it's own protocol but it's fast, efficient, and very easy to use. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

VPN - Which way to go?

2008-03-05 Thread Alphons Fonz van Werven
Howdy people, I need to setup a VPN connection to the university's network. Now, there's a chapter in the handbook about VPN over IPsec and there seems to be this thing called OpenVPN in the ports collection. Which is the better way to go? All I need is to obtain an IP address within the

Re: VPN - Which way to go?

2008-03-05 Thread D Hill
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 at 23:21 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Howdy people, I need to setup a VPN connection to the university's network. Now, there's a chapter in the handbook about VPN over IPsec and there seems to be this thing called OpenVPN in the ports collection. Which is the

Re: VPN - Which way to go?

2008-03-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 05 March 2008 06:21:47 pm Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: I need to setup a VPN connection to the university's network. Now, there's a chapter in the handbook about VPN over IPsec and there seems to be this thing called OpenVPN in the ports collection. Which is the better way to

Re: VPN - Which way to go?

2008-03-05 Thread Alphons Fonz van Werven
John Nielsen wrote: I think OpenVPN is great and use it regularly, but as far as I know it only interoperates with OpenVPN, and I'd be surprised if your university were using it. Well, it seems like OpenVPN works for the Linux guys here... But anyway, I'll go ask around about the exact

Re: VPN - Which way to go?

2008-03-05 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: John Nielsen wrote: I think OpenVPN is great and use it regularly, but as far as I know it only interoperates with OpenVPN, and I'd be surprised if your university were using it. Well, it seems like OpenVPN works for the Linux guys here... But anyway, I'll go