Sure, but that's the default Windows VPN client. Tom S.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Kelley" <gl...@hostmedic.com> To: "Tom Sharples" <tsharp...@qorvus.com>; "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 4:51 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Vyatta? > there are other options than pptp such as openvpn or ipsec > > > On Apr 5, 2010, at 7:48 PM, Tom Sharples wrote: > >> Have you run into the pfsense pptp limitation? That is, only one >> customer >> (behind your pfsense NAT router) , can establish a pptp session to >> the same >> external pptp server at a time. At least, that's what the pfsense >> download >> site lists under known limitations. >> >> Tom S. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Scott Lambert" <lamb...@lambertfam.org> >> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> >> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 4:30 PM >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Vyatta? >> >> >>> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 10:15:24PM -0400, Tom DeReggi wrote: >>>> What Vyatta does is pretty cool. And they have also been giving >>>> back to >>>> open >>>> >>>> <snip> >>>> >>>> But the bad is.... its priced wrong. They are going high end, >>>> targeting a >>>> coporate user that might have one or two routers. >>>> They make their money on support contracts and their fees are very >>>> expensive. You pay per router, per processor, per year. And at >>>> $600-$900 >>>> each./yr or something like that. Then there is the free community >>>> version, >>> >>> pfSense was the same way. But, now they have support contracts >>> based on >>> resonable metrics, like hours, rather than boxes. >>> >>> I have had a pfSense box (Pentium III) acting as the corporate >>> firewall >>> with 5 interfaces for several years. No problems. >>> >>> For the past 4 or 5 months, I've had a pfSense box (1 Ghz C7) running >>> as a NAT box for a network we purchased recently. It has been >>> working >>> great. I have recently added the OpenOSPFd package and it is working >>> well talking to StarOS, Mikrotik, Cisco, and Imagestream boxes. The >>> web GUI means I'm not the only guy who can figure out how to use >>> them. >>> Carp means I can set them up in redundant pairs. I'll be bringing up >>> OpenBGPd talking to the upstream soon so that we can get rid of the >>> NAT. >>> >>> Both boxes have been loafing with 20 and 10Mbps of traffic >>> respectively. >>> >>> My favorite part of pfSense is the fact that I can ssh in and use the >>> usual BSD commands to do things when I can't get to the web interface >>> because I am coming from an unusual IP which is not normally allowed >>> access to the web interface. I can also use tcpdump, mtr, nmap to >>> look >>> at any possible issues. >>> >>> I like the unix command line interfaces. ImageStream and pfSense are >>> both pretty decent from that perspective. I hate how mikrotik and >>> staros have gotten in my way. >>> >>> StarOS's shell with 6 commands really annoys me. They could at least >>> have included busybox. Even just including less/more would have been >>> an improvement. Having grep would make my day. Finding the route >>> any >>> particular StarOS box has to BFE in the midst of the other 300 >>> routes is >>> "fun". >>> >>> I think mikrotik should have tried to emulate the junos or cisco cli >>> rather than inventing something new. The hierarchy of the command >>> tree >>> feels random to me. It probably makes sense to the developers >>> though. >>> >>> But, I've been able to make them all work together. They all seem >>> reaonably reliable. >>> >>> I've not used Vyatta. >>> >>> -- >>> Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix >>> SysAdmin >>> lamb...@lambertfam.org >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> WISPA Wants You! 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