[KLUG Members] pptp vpn

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Here is what I currently have setup
> Internal NIC --------- Linux Box -------- Internet
> 192.168.1.1       VPN server 192.168.1.1    DHCP assigned
>                   VPN client range
>                   192.168.1.110-199
>                   Proxy-ARP on eth0 (internal int)
> This seems to work just fine.  I guess I need to try to set the VPN
> server address to something other than .1 just to see if it needs to
> be there but "if it is not broke don't fix it" seems to be coming
> into play.  

That looks correct to me.

> > IPSec is a major *P*I*T*A*.  You couldn't make me do IPSec for
> > almost
> > any amount of money - IPSec is just one RETARDED OBFUSTICATED
> > JACKED-UP
> > technology.  Someone thought: "Hmmmmm, how can we make the most
> > complicated, confusing, incompatible, and ornery VPN solution
> > possible?"
> > - and IPSec was born.
> Isn't IPSec more secure than PPTP though?  

Yes, it is;  although the security problems of PPTP tend to be rather
exaggerated.

> Is OpenVPN like using OpenSSH or something?  

I don't think there is any relation.  OpenVPN in an SSL based VPN solution.

> I am assuming there is an OpenVPN client for
> Windows then, 

Yes, and there is now a .Net GUI configuration tool.