You might consider looking at black-box solution such as a Nortel VPN box.
We've now been using one for several months, and so far we're very happy
with it.
It does both PPTP (which we have turned off) and IPSec, and it comes with
IPSec clients for both Win95 and NT. The installation is trivial, it can be
managed from a web browser (over SSL), and it can use either radius or LDAP
for user authentication information.
We haven't done many interoperability tests with it, but the reviews that
I've seen indicate that Nortel has a quite robust IPSec implementation that
interoperates well with other solutions. (Does anybody out there have
experience with Nortel<->IPSec client implementations other than the
Nortel's Windows and NT stacks?)
The use of LDAP for user authentication and IPSec for communication seems to
bode well for happy coexistance with Win2000.
The one caveat is that the Nortel client stack doesn't function with
Compu$serve and AOL connectors. (So go out and get yourself a real ISP!)
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