Declan Moriarty wrote: > The Government here (if you would call it that) has a decentralisation > policy which is resulting in WAN connectivity for each department to a > central VPN. > > Is this remotely secure? Even if it is, is it hackable? I am presuming > windows, and ssh are also involved. But wan means 2 people broadcast, > and surely any third one can pick them both up. >
Sure, you can pick up anything...whether you can make sense of what you 'pick up' is the question. If this is just involving windows connectivity issues, have a google for 'VPN', 'MSCHAT-V2' and 'MPPE' and related mppe patch(m)es(s) for linux kernel. Security is pretty good but certainly not unbreakable. I have MS style VPN working on LFS for server side (for remote VPN sessions from windows PCs) should you need assistance in coping with it. I can't imagine it being more difficult setting up the client....this assuming you are dealing with MS VPN. If not, you should be searching for L2TP, or maybe even Cisco variants which I know nothing about except that they require a separate client on MS boxes. Hope that helps you find what it is you are looking for. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
