I know with smoothwall, which is where ipcop has it;s roots, it's a freeswan ipsec. There are utilities out there (there used to be a "clients" page www.freeswan.org I think) that can let you connect in.
Googling for "freeswan client" and possibly win2k or XP would get you some hits, but this might help http://vpn.ebootis.de/ . -t -----Original Message----- From: Shaolin Tiger [mailto:shaolin@;shaolin-tiger.com] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Allowing secure external access. Hi all, Just a quick query really..I'm pretty new to allowing people to come in from outside, I usually spend most of my time trying to stop them ;) I need to allow access to our internal database and application to the sales manager who spends all his time outside.. I have an IPCop firewall which I believe has some VPN support, but only supports end to end connections, like 1 IPCop box to another, as far as I can understand from reading the docs. I know in 2k and XP you can choose VPN when creating a new connection in network settings and enter a server IP but I don't think this would work with the IPCop machine. The sales guy will be using an XP laptop. The other option I thought of is having a dedicated machine inside using VNC or something and a port forward, but I don't think this is very secure. We do have terminal services on our PDC but it is allready overloaded and I wouldn't wish to put this extra burden on it...it may just give up. What other options do I have? Preferably free, or cheap and secure to put my mind at rest opening up a hole in the firewall. Any suggestions appreciated. Shaolin .: http://www.security-forums.com :. Share your knowledge It's a way to achieve Immortality.
