Connecting to Microsoft VPN

[Gary Stainburn]

On Saturday 01 May 2004 3:29 am, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Sa, den 01.05.2004 schrieb Christoph Wickert um 04:07:
> > (You need to have kernelsources installed. You will need them anyway,
> > for the module bsd_comp.o is missing in the fedora kernel (WHY??). So
> > you have turn bsd-compression off or rebuild the module for your kernel,
> > at least that's what I did.)
>
> Ooops; I forgot the most important step:
> download and install:
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pptpclient/pptp-linux-1.4.0-1.i386.rpm
>
> [snipped]
>
> Christoph


However, if you search the net, you will find MANY documents telling you why  
you should not do this.  PPTP is a VERY insecure method.

(Sorry bit I can't cite anything specific here as it's a while since I 
investigated this stuff - I decided on the more restrictive but more secure 
port forwarding over SSH. (Other methods are available. No guarantee is 
provided either implied..........you know what I mean)).
-- 
Gary Stainburn
 
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