From owner-freebsd-net Tue Mar 28 11:25:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from wat-border.sentex.ca (waterloo-hespler.sentex.ca [199.212.135.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28EB937BFC6; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:25:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.ca) Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by wat-border.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA66850; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:25:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.ca) Received: from simoeon (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA29463; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:25:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.ca) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000328142245.01bcf4c0@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:22:45 -0500 To: "Jeff Hamilton" , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: FreeBSD as VPN server for Win2000 Clients In-Reply-To: <20000328151254.89244.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 07:12 AM 3/28/00 PST, Jeff Hamilton wrote: >Hi. > >I am interested in setting up FreeBSD to act as a VPN server for remote >users running Windows 2000 Professional. I am restricted to using the VPN >support that is built-in to Win2000, so I can't purchase any addon products. > My boss would also much prefer a free solution on the FreeBSD end. > >Is this possible to do? If so, how do I get started? 2 *possible* options... ptpp (aka point 2 point tunneling protocol), or ipsec. From the ports collection /usr/ports/net/poptop 1.0 Introduction ---------------- 1.1 About PoPToP PoPToP is the PPTP Server solution for Linux. PoPToP allows Linux servers to function seamlessly in the PPTP VPN environment. This enables administrators to leverage the considerable benefits of both Microsoft and Linux. The current pre-release version supports Windows 95/98/NT/2000 PPTP clients and PPTP Linux clients. PoPToP is free GNU software. PoPToP Home Page: http://www.moretonbay.com/vpn/pptp.html But I would try the IPsec route first... ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message