RE: Best VPN server to use on Fedora

From: Mike McGrath (mmcgrath_at_iesabroad.org)
Date: 10/27/05

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    > -----Original Message-----
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    > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Lim
    > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 7:39 AM
    > To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
    > Subject: RE: Best VPN server to use on Fedora
    >
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    > On Behalf Of Leonard Isham
    > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 4:50 AM
    > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
    > Subject: Re: Best VPN server to use on Fedora
    >
    > On 10/27/05, Rick Lim <ricklim@telus.net> wrote:
    > >
    > >
    > > -----Original Message-----
    > > From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com
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    > > 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.
    >
    > Not trying to doubt your word, but can you point me towards
    > articles to prove the built in VPN to be less than desirable?
    >
    > I have to be able to prove my case to my users that the
    > installation of "another" client is required......
    >
    > Thanks.
    >

    What your interested in is poptop. Their website has a better
    description as to why not to use it:

    http://poptop.sourceforge.net/dox/protocol-security.phtml

            -Mike 

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