VPN server in Fedora

[Mark Ryden]

Itamar,
I can do it by myself. But the question is why no one packaged it for
fedora? because usually, when a project is popular, it is
being packaged. This led me to thinking that there are other, better
solutions for vpn server on Linux. Pptpd uses the ppp user space
daemon, and I simply do not know if this solution is better or
worse than the alternatives.
Regards,
Mark


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Itamar Reis Peixoto
<itamar at ispbrasil.com.br> wrote:
> there are no poptop for fedora because no one packaged it for fedora.
>
> you can do it if you want.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Mark Ryden <markryde at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> - I found out that there are two common ways to run a VPN server
>> on Linux. One way is using ipsec, with projects like openswan/strongswan.
>> The other is running pptpd server; this implements a Virtual Private
>> Networking Server (VPN) that iscompatible with Microsoft VPN clients,
>> and allows windows users to
>> connect to an internal firewalled network using their dialup.
>> See http://poptop.sourceforge.net/.
>>
>> When looking for rpms for Fedora 11 or Fedora 10, I found out that
>> there is no pptpd
>> ("yum install pptpd" results in
>> No package pptpd available.
>> Nothing to do).
>> There is however, openswan rpm for fedora 10 or 11.
>>
>> My question is: what is the reason that there is no pptp rpm packages for
>> newer Fedora distros ? is some other solution replaces it ? is there a better
>> Linux VPN server solution which enables Microsoft VPN clients to connect to
>> a Linux VPN server ?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mark
>>
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