From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 13 13:16:10 2002 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 63A5A37B400 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mediaodyssey.com (mail.mediaodyssey.com [206.168.47.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAB8843E65 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:16:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmcatee@mediaodyssey.com) Received: from jim (unverified [206.168.47.39]) by mail.mediaodyssey.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.6) with SMTP id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:16:06 -0600 Message-ID: <097c01c24306$5d316c20$272fa8ce@jim> From: "Jim McAtee" To: , "Sicco Miedema" References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020813214645.024a99a8@192.168.1.1> Subject: Re: FreeBSD as VPN server Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:16:53 -0600 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 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you're just going to connect to a Win machine running terminal services, why the need for a VPN? Terminal services already offers encryption. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sicco Miedema" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 2:07 PM Subject: FreeBSD as VPN server > First of all I'd like to thank the people who sent me the usefull FreeBSD > links. Practice makes perfect: This time i configured the server in two > days (and went to the pub in the mean time ;-) > Now my server is up and running, it still needs one thing: VPN to acces my > network from work/school. > Since I am a poor student, I can't afford a shiny new laptop so I bought a > rickety old machine for 150 euro's :) > > Here's the plan: > connect the rickety laptop to the vpn server and then use the > terminalservices client to take over my desktop > > laptop (win98) --> internet --> vpn (freebsd) --> terminal server (winxp) > > > The problem: > I don't know wich program to use.. vpnd, pppopie etc. I've been searching > using google and haven't found anything usefull :( > > It doesn't have to be state of the art as long as i can connect any remote > windows machine to the vpn (and join the network) > > Yours sincerely, > > Sicco Miedema To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message