Re: ppp vpn through ssh

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_dodgy.net.au)
Date: 12/21/03 

Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 01:22:27 +0000 (UTC)

In article <uZ0Fb.5299$ci1.1991@nwrddc03.gnilink.net>,
Mangled&Munged <postmaster@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>Simplify your life. Go with PopTop on your Linux system,
>and use the PPTP client that is already on your Winblows box.

If PPTP isn't your thing, try OpenVPN. It's SSL based and has a Windows
client (and, to drag things marginally back on-topic, unlike IPSEC
or PPTP solutions you can run it over an SSH tunnel.)
http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/

You may also want to read Peter Gutmann's crtique of some of the VPN
implementations around (original is offline, but Google's cache has it
(beware line wrap):
http://216.239.33.104/search?q=cache:jVmnblVudEcJ:www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/linux_vpn.txt 

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Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au)
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