On 23 Sep 2002 15:36:49 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote:
> Hello. I'm looking into setting up a VPN so that people at home with >cable modems/dsl/etc can connect into our corporate network. I've >looked at a bunch of ipsec how-to's (using racoon mostly), but they all >seem to be geared towards a setup that connects two freeBSD machines >together and passes packets securely between them. I'd like to use SSH >sentinel, or some other free Windows based client on one end, and then >the freebsd box with VPN software running on the other to connect the >client to the work network as though it were physically plugged into it. > >What can I use to do this? Most of the users use Windows 98 at home, so >they don't have any built in ipsec programs. The description of the >linksys BEFVP41 is pretty similar to what I'd like to setup. >http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=23&prid=411 That would probably work. Another option is to use mpd (/usr/ports/net/mpd) on the FreeBSD side and let the Windows clients use MS PPTP. If you are aware of the security limitations / issues of PPTP and you are OK with them you should be fine. ---Mike Mike Tancsa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
