I'd love to use OpenVPN, but the end users have to set it up themselves, and honestly, it's not easy enough for an end user to do. Editing a text file with technical information is beyond most end users capability. If there was a point and click GUI made for it, that would be different. Getting them just to run an install on their laptops to install OpenVPN is a chore (and that's the easy part). Configuring it, well, I gave up completely after talking to too many end users who just sat on the other end of the phone silent because they didn't know what a text file was, or how to find Notepad.......etc. I do agree that OpenVPN is better than PPTP, except when it comes to setting it up. In that part if falls way behind PPTP.
Maybe someone can prove me wrong and show me a simple tutorial that a typical computer illiterate end user can follow and be successful. BTW, when you're not stupid like me, and you don't enable your local PPTP server on your local PFSense box, PPTP just works too. This was the first time I ever had a problem with it, and the fact that the other administrator enabled it on the same day as the upgrade I did made me think it was upgrade related when in fact it was not. Christopher Iarocci Network Solutions Manager Twin Forks Office Products 631-727-3354 -----Original Message----- From: Paul Mansfield [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 1:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Multi-WAN PPTP? Tim Nelson wrote: > If you simply need to give road warriors access to your network, *PLEASE* check out OpenVPN yes, what he said. we've got windows (XP, vista), linux and Mac users all on openVPN and it mainly "just works". don't make life hard for yourself :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
