Windows VPN

[Michael Hipp]

Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> On Thursday 16 November 2006 14:22, Tim Wunder wrote:
>> On Thursday 16 November 2006 1:46 pm, Ben Duncan wrote:
>>> In Windows 2K /XP, "MY NETWORK" lets you set up a VPN
>>> as an alternatively Network Connection.
>>>
>>> Any Idea what Protcol that is how to do the
>>> same thing on a Linux Box?
>>>
>>> Thanks ...
>> As Lonnie said, that's PPTP.
>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/network/vpn/vpnfaq.mspx
>>
>> There are linux clients, I think. Are you tryuing to connect to a VPN, or
>> create a VPN?
> 
> Actually Win2k and WinXP have L2TP over IPSEC, IINM.  I believe Linux can also 
> set this up, although I've not done it personally.
> The buzz I always here for Windows VPN's is OpenVPN.  It is cross-platform (at 
> least Windows and Linux, if not more), and doesn't suffer from the IPSEC 
> woes.  From my understanding (David could speak more to this), it's SSL VPN 
> done right.

There's also a Mac OSX client for OpenVPN.

Michael