Do yourself a favor and buy two Linksys routers (~$80/each). Setup the routers to vpn each other and then give one to the home droid and set the other up as a parallel firewall. It will take you 10 minutes to setup and it's droid proof...
Alternately, just buy one Linksys and then setup IPSec on your company firewall. Good Luck - Jon Carnes On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 00:24, Tanner Lovelace wrote: > On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:25:00 -0400, Brian Henning > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As it happens, today a coworker came to me wanting to be able to access > > our financial files from home. Again, VPN to the rescue, or so I thought. > > OpenVPN sounds really good; only problem is, this coworker only has Windows > > 98 on his computer at home; OpenVPN calls for 2k/XP. Are VPN clients and > > servers interchangeable? Can I run OpenVPN on the company side (on our > > linux server) and just find whatever VPN client I can get my hands on that > > will run on Win98? If anyone could suggest a VPN client they have > > experience with that works well on 98 in conjunction with OpenVPN, or any > > other f/oss solution I can install on the company side's linux box, I'd be > > eternally grateful. > > Sadly, I don't think this will work. OpenVPN tunnels everything over a > a TCP (or was it UDP?) connection on a single port while other VPNs > like IPSEC or PPTP use a separate IP protocol. > > > This coworker is using dialup, so there's no way to install much in the way > > of VPN appliance hardware in his home. > > For many years I ran a linux box that acted as a gateway and NAT box for > a dialup connection, so don't count that out. If diald is still around, I used > to use that for on demand dialing. That way, for the internal > network, it appeared > to be always connected (albeit with a long startup time for the first > connection). > > Alternatively, the linux version of the PPTP server is called, iirc, PoPToP and > works quite well. Any security concerns you may have heard about PPTP > are just in the specific MS implementation of it, not in the protocol itself, so > that might be an option for you... > > Cheers, > Tanner -- 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
