VPN with Fedora - PPTP

[Sébastien Bisoglio]

Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Mi, den 31.03.2004 schrieb Sébastien Bisoglio um 21:40:
> 
>>Hi at all,
>>
>>I am making a VPN with pptp protocol but i haven't find any RPM for 
>>pptpd installation or the MSCHAPv2 cryptage for the MS protocol !
>>
>>Is this normal ?
>>
>>We aren't able to make this with a Fedora ?
> 
> 
> Quote from http://fedora.redhat.com/:
> "The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to
> build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from
> free software"
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^!!!
> 
> MSCHAPv2, as the names says, is M$ proprietary stuff.
> 
Ok then sorry for the question !
> 
>>Is-it RPM for this if yes ?
> 
> 
> Client:
> http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-fedora.phtml
> 
> Server:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=44827
> 
> running the ./kernelmod.sh will ask you if it should build an rpm for
> you.
> 
> But I recommend not using pptp since it's not as secure as openvpn or
> IPSec. In addition you'll need to patch your kernel/build a kernelmodule
> and update the pppd I think. So OpenVPN or IPSec might be easier to
> install, since they are available at Dag Wieers repo -> install via
> yum...
> 
I know IPSec is better but my ISP router can't route packets for IPSEC 
vpn... I can just route TCP or UDP packets !

I dont'know what is open-VPN... L2TP ? Ipsec ? PPTP ? OTher ?

> http://dag.wieers.com/packages/openvpn/
> http://dag.wieers.com/packages/kernel-module-freeswan/
> 
> IPSec is supported by Win 2000, XP and newer, openvpn is also available
> as Win32 app.
> 
> Christoph

Thanks for the answer !!!
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