From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 27 06:44:37 2004 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 C3D6D16A4CF; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 06:44:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9CBD43D58; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 06:44:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 4.32 #0 (FreeBSD 4.9)) id 1BISsw-000HEP-Eq by authid ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:44:30 +0300 Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:44:30 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040427134430.GD9695@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, gnb@lightning.itga.com.au, archie@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.5.1i (2003-11-05) X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: gnb@lightning.itga.com.au cc: archie@freebsd.org Subject: VPN Gateway to M$ Windows 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, 27 Apr 2004 13:44:37 -0000 Folks, The wind doesn't seem to be blowing in my direction. Either I am getting crazy or just losing touch. I am reading all the doco I can lay my hands on about setting up a VPN gw and this is to use MPD. Now there is a nice page (I love the setup notes this guy made!) here: http://www.itga.com.au/~gnb/vpn/pptp-serv.html It talks about mpd-3.2 and 3.3 and this was written long ago. But looking at my ports (4.9-STABLE and 5.2.1-RELEASE) the Makefile in the /usr/ports/net/mpd show it's version 3.17. At the time of writing his doco, March 2001, Gregory he says that mpd was at version 3.2. That has lost me! Was the port downgraded? Does anyone know if the patches for external-auth were made part of the 3.17 port?? OK. I would like to setup a VPN gateway to a Microsuck Windows box. I've had suggestions to use Cisco PIX for this, but I was wondering what it is that the Cisco thingy will do that FreeBSD with MPD won't do. I am also looking at other "secure implementations" of this project. I'm still googling (giggling ;-)) but any other pointers are most welcome. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal