Re: Best VPN server to use on Fedora

From: Leonard Isham (leonard.isham_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/27/05

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    Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:49:51 -0400
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    On 10/27/05, Rick Lim <ricklim@telus.net> wrote:
    >
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]
    > On Behalf Of Kenneth Porter
    > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:51 AM
    > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
    > Subject: Re: Best VPN server to use on Fedora
    >
    > --On Monday, October 24, 2005 9:53 PM -0400 Leonard Isham
    > <leonard.isham@gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    > > OpenVPN gets my vote. www.openvpn.net
    >
    > Agreed. It runs over SSL instead of IPSec, almost completely in userspace,
    > which I find is easier to set up. The stock Fedora kernel includes the
    > required kernel tun/tap device, so you don't need a custom kernel, nor
    > special router support. If you can open a ssh or https connection to your
    > VPN server, then you can get to it with OpenVPN, assuming the port is open.
    > ISP's don't see it as "VPN". (Some forbid VPN connections.)
    >
    > Hi Kenneth,
    >
    > I have looked at OpenVPN, from what I can figure out.... with a Linux VPN
    > server and windows xp clients you would have to install OpenVPN on the
    > windows machine.
    >
    > I don't want to have to install OpenVPN on each windows machine, windows xp
    > already has a client built in, I would like a Linux server that would work
    > with the built in windows client, am I wrong in assuming that OpenVPN on the
    > Linux box will not work with the XP client?
    >

    While I don't know your situation...

    The MIcrosoft included Windows VPN clients are insecure. Which has
    been proven multiple times. I would only impliment a Windows solution
    under protest. In fact I have migrated people to OpenVPN.

    I find the installation of the windows client trivial and you end up
    with a reliable secure solution. 

    --
Leonard Isham, CISSP
Ostendo non ostento.
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