VPN with Fedora - PPTP

Sébastien Bisoglio bsebastien at bluewin.ch
Wed Mar 31 22:27:06 UTC 2004


For the moment it is an PPTP connection for the VPN (port 1723 TCP).. 
But it isn't secure.. And i haven't find RPM to make it then i don't 
want this solution..

Have you make L2TP VPN under Linux ? With fedora ? How have you make ?

Thanks

Mark Haney wrote:

> Forwarding TCP and UDP ports means nothing in when it comes to VPNs.  
> Can you get a box inside to support IPSec or L2TP? I have encountered 
> the same issue with the firewall we have and have a box setup with 
> openVPN (openvpn.sourceforge.net) that builds a good VPN between server 
> and client.
> 
> On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:13:34 +0200, Sébastien Bisoglio 
> <bsebastien at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the answer...
>>
>> But I can't make a VPN with IPSEC because my router don't support 
>> this... I just can forward TCP and UDP ports..
>>
>> Then if any1 have an idea...
>>
>> Mark Haney wrote:
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>>> Hey, we got it already.  You don't need to send it 50 times.  I think 
>>> using something like FreeS/Wan or the IPsec stack built into the 2.6 
>>> kernel is your best bet. I never got a pptpd working and the MSChap 
>>> stuff I think is still experimental.
>>>
>>> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:40:31 +0200, Sébastien Bisoglio 
>>> <bsebastien at bluewin.ch> wrote:
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