From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 13 08:11:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24589 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 08:11:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tnc.com (tnc.com [139.142.36.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24583 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 08:11:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swheeler@tnc.com) Received: from Shannon (fort10.tnc.com [139.142.38.153]) by tnc.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id JAA11899 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:10:31 -0700 (MST) From: "Shannon Wheeler" To: Subject: Re: VPN, an off topic question Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 08:27:09 -0700 Message-ID: <01be0f1a$142b4920$0307070a@Shannon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wingate, a proxy server for Win95 and NT can be used to set up encrypted links between two LANs. This wouldn't help if you're trying to connect a standalone unix system to a remote LAN but if connecting two LANs, as long as there is a Win32 box of some sort on each end (with internet access) it may do what you want. The windows machines don't have to be your main proxy/firewall solutions. www.wingate.net for anyone interested. -----Original Message----- From: Archie Cobbs >Jason T. Nelson writes: >> > This is what PPTP does.. it's like PPP where you replace the word >> > "modem" with the word "Internet". M$oft sells client and server software >> > (the clients are free -- download "microsoft dial-up networking 1.3"). >> > >> > I don't know of any freely available FreeBSD software for doing PPTP. >> > Using an NT server is proabaly the quickest way to get it working. >> >> Ugh. PPTP is riddled with holes; search for "PPTP security" on any >> search engine to find out why. Right now, I'm using the KAME IPsec >> stack to connect two FreeBSD boxes using IPsec over IPv4. You get >> an additional benefit of getting IPv4 over IPv4 (IPIP) tunneling >> as well if you don't want the overhead of IPsec. > >Yes, PPTP is about what you'd expect from Microsoft security-wise. >However, it's the only instance of what the original poster asked >for that runs on *Win95* that I know of.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message