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Date:      Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:16:53 -0600
From:      "Jim McAtee" <jmcatee@mediaodyssey.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Sicco Miedema" <s.miedema@home.nl>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD as VPN server
Message-ID:  <097c01c24306$5d316c20$272fa8ce@jim>
References:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020813214645.024a99a8@192.168.1.1>

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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" <s.miedema@home.nl>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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


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