Openvpn it is.

Eric, Craig, Thanks

>
> From: "Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug@shubes.net>
> Organization: Eric Shubert & Associates
> Subject: Free VPN (was Re: To WEP or not to WEP (WiFi))
>
> G Gambill wrote:
> >
> > Is there a free VPN that likes MS and Linux?
> >
> For a simple VPN (if there is such a thing), I like CIPE
> http://sites.inka.de/~bigred/devel/cipe.html
> There is a windows version, limited to NT4.0 SP3-SP6 and Win2k. Not
> (yet) available for Win9x or WinXP.
> It is not a flexible as IPSec and cannot connect to IPSec tunnels, but
> it gets the job done. You need to use it on both ends of the tunnel, and
> it is capable of connecting two lans over the internet, or just locally.
>
> OpenVPN (http://openvpn.net) is very robust (more complicated), and runs
> on Win2k/XP in addition to a slew of *nix variants.
>
> You might also take a look at Openswan at http://www.openswan.org
> (formerly FreeS/WAN http://www.freeswan.org, no longer active). There
> doesn't appear to be a windoze version of this, but it may (or may not)
> work with another windoze IPSec implementation.
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
> "There is no such thing as the People;
>   it is a collectivist myth.
>   There are only individual citizens
>   with individual wills
>   and individual purposes."
> -William E. Simon (1927-2000),
>      Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
>   "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237
>
>
>
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>
> Subject: Re: Free VPN (was Re: To WEP or not to WEP (WiFi))
> From: Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>
> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 11:04:49 -0700
>
> On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:46 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> > G Gambill wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there a free VPN that likes MS and Linux?
> > >
> > For a simple VPN (if there is such a thing), I like CIPE
> > http://sites.inka.de/~bigred/devel/cipe.html
> > There is a windows version, limited to NT4.0 SP3-SP6 and Win2k. Not
> > (yet) available for Win9x or WinXP.
> > It is not a flexible as IPSec and cannot connect to IPSec tunnels, but
> > it gets the job done. You need to use it on both ends of the
> tunnel, and
> > it is capable of connecting two lans over the internet, or just locally.
> >
> > OpenVPN (http://openvpn.net) is very robust (more complicated),
> and runs
> > on Win2k/XP in addition to a slew of *nix variants.
> >
> > You might also take a look at Openswan at http://www.openswan.org
> > (formerly FreeS/WAN http://www.freeswan.org, no longer active). There
> > doesn't appear to be a windoze version of this, but it may (or may not)
> > work with another windoze IPSec implementation.
> ----
> openvpn is the one to use at the moment if you don't want to go to the
> pain of setting up L2TP or the far less secure PPTP
>
> openvpn has client and server support for Macintosh, Windows and Linux
>
> cipe is relatively simple but not having WinXP is pointless and it's
> been deprecated on Fedora/Red Hat so I have gone towards IPSEC and/or
> openVPN
>
> Craig
>


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