[KLUG Members] question on firewall distro for VPN

[Richard Harding]

Bruce Smith wrote:

>>I was hoping to use SmoothWall to eliminate the need for this extra 
>>Win2k box. (Major $$ cutbacks in Education in MI these days) but in 
>>order to do this you have to purchase add ons. Is there any distro like 
>>smoothwall that would let me set up an easy to use VPN for a few users 
>>while still letting me replace the firewall unit?
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>What type VPN?  Devil-Linux supports all know VPN's that run on Linux.
>It's not as easy to setup as IPCOP, but your choice of software is far
>greater, plus the advantage of no hard drive needed (runs from CDROM).
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Right now it is set up with PPTP. I am willing to move to a different 
method so long as I can do it easily from the end users XP laptops.

I will give a look at shorewall and IPCop. Thanks for the ideas.