VPN tool (PPTP) on FC6 ?

Patrick fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl
Fri Nov 10 14:56:00 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 00:21 +0000, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 11/10/06, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> > kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com wrote:
> > > Hi List;
> > >
> > > Any suggestions for client PPTP VPN tools on FC6 ?
> >
> > What do you mean by "VPN tool"?  Are you looking for a PPTP client
> on Linux?
> >
> > If so....
> >
> > http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > maybe what you seek.
> >
> >
> PPTP is all you will need...watch out...you have to manually set the
> routing.

Watch out... it is not very secure. A better solution is to use OpenVPN.

http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/protocol-security.phtml
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/index.php?p=21
http://www.schneier.com/paper-pptpv2.html

Regards,
Patrick




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