Re: VPN e Win32 client info

["Stefan Neufeind" <stefan@neufeind.net>]

On 12 Feb 2003 at 11:52, Tadeusz Knapik wrote:

> 12.02.03 pisze Massimo Villa (mvilla@techneitalia.com):
> 
> > There's anybody who knows a ggod howto to install e simple ma secure
> > VPN between two little lan? Is it possible for a single user
> > (example, a home user with W2K), to use a win32 client (as Cisco
> > client) for linking to a remote lan managed by a linux VPN?
>  Yes, you can use Linux pptpd with some kernel and ppp patches.
>  Patches can be found at http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/mppe/.

You can also use L2TP on the Windows-machines. I recently found out 
there are patent-limitations for which I personally dislike the PPTP-
solution. Also I heard its less secure than L2TP with X509-certs. If 
anybody is interested I could digg out those weblinks for the patent-
thing.


Yours
 Stefan