On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:53:39PM +0700, sonjaya wrote: > On 5/11/07, Lars D. Noodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, 11 May 2007, Adam Hawes wrote: > >> You're well advised to go do some reading on your own. If you had > >> you would have discovered that OpenVPN ahs a tutorial page for > >> configuring the server, as does the readily available PPTP server. > > > >It's not a funny joke to be recommending PPTP to anybody. Some may miss > >the sarcasm and actually try to deploy it. > > > >Any further amount of reading (if done) would reveal that PPTP can't > >really be called secure and should be avoided. Its successor, L2TP, can > >be improved somewhat, at least the connections, by tunnelling over SSL. > >But then why not cut out the middleman and use SSL to begin with? Fewer > >parts that way. > > > >IPsec and SSL are your two options: > > http://www.vpnc.org/vpn-standards.html > > > >I'm wondering that since IPsec is part fo IPv6, the equivalent to an > >IPsec-on-IPv4 VPN could be made using IPv6 instead. Maybe that would be > >smarter in the long run.
> so i must using ipsec for security reason , how about the client ( > such us Microsoft ) can they use ipsec too. Yes, but don't use the stock IPsec client. Really, the archives are full of this discussion. Please take a good look there, first; if you encounter any problems, you are welcome to ask, but *please* search the archive first. Joachim -- TFMotD: release (8) - building an OpenBSD release