Re: Setting up an stunnel connection from Linux through Win 2K to an HP-UX machine

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_verizon.net)
Date: 09/02/03 

Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 03:33:01 GMT

James Kimble wrote:
> My company recently set up VPN capability on the Inet Server so that
> certain employees could have a high speed connection to our network
> over the internet.
>
> I am running Linux and would like to use the same capability. I have
> no need to work with the Windows network but I would like to be able
> to connect to the HP-UX box (where I live) via the same tunnel through
> the Internet server. I've looked at the stunnel man pages and a few
> web sites but I'm being lazy. I'm using Red Hat 8.0 and Road Runner and
> I just want to tunnel through the Internet server (a Windows 2000 machine)
> and connect to another Unix box (HP-UX 11). Can anyone give me a quick
> overview?

1: For tunneling individual channels this way, you probably want SSH,
not stunnel. It's a lot easier to set up.

2: If you want full VPN access, take a look at www.poptop.org and the
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ web pages. If your "Inet Server" is
already using Microsoft's VPN service, the pptpclient software is quite
compatible with it.

3: Win2K machines are a bit hazardous as VPN servers. They're so
difficult to secure properly, and the software and licenses are so
expensive, you're almost always better off with a Linux based VPN
server, even when serving Windows clients.

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