Hi again, The PPTP daemon that is used in Bering is based on: http://www.poptop.org/ That should be a good startiing point...
Jorn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nachman Yaakov Ziskind Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 8:39 PM To: Jorn Eriksen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [leaf-user] VPN Suggestions? > -----Original Message----- > > I'd like to implement a VPN at work (seems to be the in thing to do); I don't > really so much want encryption (but I'll take it :-) as better user > authentication (right now, I use TCP Wrappers and firewall rules to keep out > undesireables; this is becoming more and more unworkable as folks wish to > connect with dynamic IP addresses). Right now, I have Bering V1.0-RC2 > running off a floppy (love that firewall!) and a Mandrake box on the > interior. > > Primary criterion: ease of setup on the admin's part. :-) > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Thanks! Jorn Eriksen wrote (on Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:15:47PM +0100): > Norman, > > I've used PPTP for quite some time. It's very stable! The best thing is > that it do not require ANY software on W2K / XP machines... > > Have a look here for details: > http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bering/latest/packages/pppd/ Thanks, Jorn. But I am now confused - there was very little documentation there. And, from Googling, I see that pppd is supposed to transmit datagrams over serial links - and I'm not sure how that fits in to a VPN over broadband ethernet, or how pppd relates to pptp. Can you point me to some documentation? Thanks! -- _________________________________________ Nachman Yaakov Ziskind, EA, LLM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Attorney and Counselor-at-Law http://ziskind.us Economic Group Pension Services http://egps.com Actuaries and Employee Benefit Consultants ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
