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(formerly FreeS/WAN http://www.freeswan.org, no longer active).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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