From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 9 18:20:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96B3B37B401 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 18:20:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bjwcs.com (swing.bjwcs.com [208.185.25.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2A3843F85 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 18:20:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brently@bjwcs.com) Received: from samba [68.98.5.134] by bjwcs.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.07) id A247102001E; Mon, 09 Jun 2003 21:20:07 -0400 From: "Brent Wiese" To: "'David Kelly'" , Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 18:20:07 -0700 Message-ID: <00b101c32eee$6e438a00$0a0114ac@home.bjwcs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 In-Reply-To: <20030530160238.GA27219@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2727.1300 Importance: Normal Subject: RE: VPN from one Win2k host to a FreeBSD network? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:20:09 -0000 Use MPD (its in the ports) for PPTP support, which is built into w2k. On the user side, its "friendly" to set up because it presents the user w/ a modem-type setup where you "dial" a vpn box. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David Kelly > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 9:03 AM > To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: VPN from one Win2k host to a FreeBSD network? > > > This has been covered many times before, I'm sure, just I > just can't find it now I have need. > > A consultant with one Win2k system behind a home-office NAT > firewall needs to speak Microsoft protocols to an NT4 server > inside my FreeBSD NAT firewall. Also connect to the Oracle database. > > I currently have an IPsec VPN to yet another site with an > identical FreeBSD firewall as I have here. Microsoft > protocols flow over that link as well. > > The fact her remote Win2k system is already behind NAT > suggests to me using Win2k built-in IPsec isn't going to work > with racoon? > > She can ssh to my FreeBSD system. I have not disabled sshd > port forwarding. An attractive low threshold of pain might be > to use PuTTY on Win2k and port forward to here. Research > suggests she would have to disable filesharing, or possibly > remove that module, in order to free ports 137-139 so this > would work. Might work but isn't "low threshold of pain." > > Simple ssh port forwarding should work fine for Oracle. > > Next thought would be to tunnel PPP thru SSH. Have found > plenty of examples of how to do this Unix to Unix but not > from inferior OS's. > > Yet another thought was to use PPPoE. Win2k should have a > PPPoE client. Is there a tool on FreeBSD to receive such > connections? Would it appear on the Win2k system as another > network interface or would it be her sole interface while it > is up? Encryption for PPPoE? > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-> questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >