[plug] PoPToP PPTP server for Linux ->Windows VPN

[Andrew Barbara]

Hi Craig, 
I have a fair amount ox experience with PopTop server and windows
clients, It all works very well, you may need to put in the initial time
setting up the mppe crap, but once all thats done you should have no
issues.  The old 9x clients can sometimes have issues withe VPNs but
thats not the servers fault, just a crap OS.
2k an up are all fine.  We use it all the time.
With IPSEC and FreSwan, the later versions are all very good with that
issue, we run a couple of servers with FreSwan an PopTop and all no
problems, we even put tc on them to manage the bandwidth!

Hope this helps.
Andrew

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 16:51, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> I was wondering if someone on [plug] has any experience with PPTP, 
> specifically the PoPToP VPN server for Linux. I'm having to deal with my 
> first "mobile user" here (*ARRGGH*) and need a VPN option that I can 
> restrict (firewall off SMB, etc), will run well on a Linux server and 
> accept Windows client machines.
> 
> IPSEC is not an option unless FreeS/WAN advanced by several lightyears 
> since I last looked at it (no more cases of total communication loss 
> after one end doesn't cleanly disconnect, etc).
> 
> So I'm looking at PPTP. Is it one of those "it's secure! really! we 
> promise!" protocols, or is it actually useful (implementation bugs aside)?
> 
> The last resort will be putty's plink with a passwordless private key 
> (very restricted permissions) to enable access to POP3 mail, SMTP, and 
> (!!) telnet. That's ugly in many ways however, including the fact that 
> it'd have to be used even when plugged directly into the local LAN.
> 
> If anybody has worked with roaming windows (l)users needing access to a 
> network with a linux gateway, I'd love to hear of your experiences.
> 
> Craig Ringer
>