VPN question

Post #150,506 by inthane-chan 4/8/04 10:42:28 AM Reply	VPN question I'm working on (yet another silly) class paper, where I have to "create" a small five person office environment, as well as give it VPN capabilities. I'm suggesting Debian as the standard distro, but four of the "users" are mobile, and need to be able to connect back to the office remotely. Now, I went over to debian.org, and did a search on VPN clients, but the language therin indicates that the PPTP client is for Microsoft's proprietary technology. If I'm setting up a pure Linux network, is PPTP the technology I should be using to connect remotely? Nobody wins in a butter eating contest
Post #150,509 by boxley 4/8/04 10:53:32 AM Reply	depends on how the connection is to be made ppp point to point protocol is used by DSL and dialup. A vpn is a tunnel that encrypts data, sends it across the network to an endpoint where it is decrypted and sent within the network. Now if your 4 users are hitting a database server at the base an SSH tunnel would be sufficient. thanx, bill "You're just like me streak. You never left the free-fire zone.You think aspirins and meetings and cold showers are going to clean out your head. What you want is God's permission to paint the trees with the bad guys. That wont happen big mon." Clete questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #150,510 by Steve Lowe 4/8/04 10:59:40 AM 4/8/04 11:01:04 AM Reply	IPsec Have a look at IPcop for your distro and it's VPN capabilities. Look here [link\|http://www.ipcop.org/1.2.0/en/vpn/html/\|http://www.ipcop.org/1.2.0/en/vpn/html/] there's even a section on using Win2K/XP clients. If all Linux, you definitely want IPsec for VPN. I've never messed with trying to make linux a PPTP server, but have made it a client which required a custom kernel, some cussing, and more than one beer. Edit: misread original post, adjusted accordingly ----- Steve Edited by Steve Lowe April 8, 2004, 11:01:04 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #150,520 by folkert 4/8/04 12:14:03 PM Reply	Goto: [link\|http://www.coyotelinux.com/products.php?Product=wolverine\|Wolverine] VPN/Firewall 21MB distro. Bottable from CDROM and allows for persistent data on media, or recompile to have your settings in it. PPTP == Point to Point Tunneling Protocol It is an open standard, like the others out there for VPN. You might learn alot from D/Ling and trying it out. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Give a man a match, he'll be warm for a minute. Set him on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life!
Post #150,529 by FuManChu 4/8/04 1:02:57 PM Reply	Not listed on debian, iirc, but OpenVPN ist wunderbar ...uses SSL/TLS instead of IPSEC. Easy to make an ethernet bridge over it.

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