On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 17:28, Steve Kuekes wrote: > What is the group's opinion of PPTP (http://www.poptop.org) as VPN > software? I was thinking of using this to connect Windoze clients into > a corporate network since the pptp client is built into M$ os's. > I've used it at several clients - since it is built into the older versions of Windows OS. It's not nearly as secure as IPSec, but it works and it's easy to maintain. Sometimes that is all that you need.
If the clients are all XP or beyond then you can run IPSec natively as well. On the other side of the coin, I've been pushing folks to use Linksys firewalls/routers which come built-in with IPSec capability. These make it trivially easy to setup IPSec based vpn's from home to corp or from corp to corp. The cost of the routers is less than $90.00 and if someone is going to be opening up a backdoor into your network (the vpn connection), they had better be running some sort of firewall! Jon Carnes -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
