Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:39:10 +1000 From: Murray Taylor <murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: archie@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VPN Gateway to M$ Windows Message-ID: <1083123549.23000.18.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> In-Reply-To: <20040427134430.GD9695@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20040427134430.GD9695@ns2.wananchi.com>
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If you consider 2 to be less than 17 then the version numbers make sense. (its a variant of the Y2K syndrome ... do we need to use multi digit version numbers as in 3.02 which is visibly earlier than 3.17 ;-) Yes I got caught in this version thingy in mpg also ( 3.8 vs 3.10 ) mjt On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 23:44, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > 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 <wash@wananchi.com> > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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" > > ************************************************************************ > This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal. > ************************************************************************ -- Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer --------------------------------- Bytecraft Systems & Entertainment P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 M: +61 417 319 256 E: murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com or visit us on the web http://www.bytecraftsystems.com http://www.bytecraftentertainment.com ************************************************************************ This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal. ************************************************************************
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