Re: Free VPN (was Re: To WEP or not to WEP (WiFi))

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 (formerly FreeS/WAN http://www.freeswan.org, no longer active).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