On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Rene Cunningham wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 08:00:52PM +1000, Luke Burton wrote: > > What I want is a VPN endpoint, running Linux, that can be connected to > > with free clients for Windows NT/2000/XP and Mac OS X, and Linux as > > well obviously. > > > > Check out PPTP. It works well with Windows clients, though i havent come > across a Mac client. W2K and XP come with decent PPTP support.
It also comes with a half dozen protocol holes. See Bruce Schneier's analysis of the protocol (I don't have the URL to hand, but google should turn it up). > > Freeswan seems the obvious solution, but there is little docco to > > indicate how I configure it for maximum interoperability. Let alone > > interop with other free software. The FreeSWAN docs are quite complete. I got IPSec running pretty quick. Time delays were due to my fsckups, not the software or documentation's fault. The docs that come off the FreeSWAN site tend to be swan-to-swan centric, but none of the information is swan-specific. The one gotcha is that 2K/XP clients only implement X.509 key management, which needs a patch to FreeSWAN (the Debian versions have the patches pre-applied). Another Microsoft "we'll do things our way and f**k the rest of you" idea. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
