VPN Server/Client

[Paul Lussier]

In a message dated: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 09:47:02 EDT
"Richard Sharpe" said:

>Hi
>
>    I also would like to do something like this an also be able to VPN into
>work (Windows 2000) from my home PC SuSE Linux 9.1. I just need a jump
>start.


You might want to take a look at OpenVPN.  Other than a TUN/TAP device,
my understanding is that it's almost entirely userland.

  http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/

OpenVPN runs on:

  Linux, Windows 2000/XP and higher, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X,
  and Solaris.

It seems rather impressive, and my co-hort here at work has been using
it quite successfully for abuot 3 months or so.  We haven't deployed it
to the masses yet, mostly because our network design is a mess and needs
to be cleaned up first.  But other than that, it's ready to go with
little effort.

HTH,

Seeya,
Paul
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