Re: VPN client software for Linux

2001-01-03 Thread Nate Duehr
Be very careful doing this. You're connecting a "relatively insecure" environment for many people (home network) directly inside your corporate firewall. If you're big enough to have a legal department, ask them to try to write something specific that your end-users have to sign -- but it still w

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-28 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:05:02PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > be sure both your isp and the remote end's isp is routing GRE packets, > if not PPTP will fail. GRE is also an option in the kernel config if > your using a linux box as a firewall/router. > > btw, i use vpnd for my vpns, i have about

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-24 Thread Aaron Wrasman
If you have a static IP it is possible. Checkpoint has directions on what you have to do on the Checkpoint firewall and on the linux server. You should be able to find it on their public part of their knowledge base. It treats the Linux box as a remote firewall. So it is very different from sec

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-23 Thread Diarmuid Drew
My employer uses Checkpoint Firewall 1 and I use VPN-1 SecureClient as a VPN client on windows. The checkpoint site says linux FreeSWAN is compatible. I'd like to be able to use Linux, has anybody got any experience of FreeSWAN ? Derm. - Original Message - From: "Timothy C. Phan" <[EMAIL P

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Nate Amsden
be sure both your isp and the remote end's isp is routing GRE packets, if not PPTP will fail. GRE is also an option in the kernel config if your using a linux box as a firewall/router. btw, i use vpnd for my vpns, i have about 10 vpns going 24/7 and it works great... nate Pollywog wrote: > > On

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Pollywog
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:57:02 -0600, Timothy C. Phan said: > Hi, > >Is there any VPN client software for Linux? TIA! There are pptp packages for Linux on Debian's website, for Potato and Woody only. -- Andrew

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Pollywog
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:10:48 +, Erik Steffl said: > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:48:12 -0800, Erik Steffl said: > > > go to linuxdoc.org and search for vpn howto > > I will try that. I thought pptp was the Linux implementation of PopTop > and I did not think it was designed for an all

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Erik Steffl
pptp is for ms vpn, I haven't been able to make it work, it does something but never receives response from the other side (and the other side (server) works fine with ms vpn client). erik Pollywog wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:48:12 -0800, Erik Steffl said: > > > go to linuxdoc

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Pollywog
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 19:21:39 +0100 (CET), Sebastiaan said: > Hello, > > I use pptp for my adsl connection which goes through a vpn. As far as I > know there is no pptp package for potato, so I downloaded the source and > patched it with a woody patch. Are there instructions somewhere (a HOW

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Pollywog
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:48:12 -0800, Erik Steffl said: > go to linuxdoc.org and search for vpn howto I will try that. I thought pptp was the Linux implementation of PopTop and I did not think it was designed for an all-Linux system. -- Andrew

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Erik Steffl
go to linuxdoc.org and search for vpn howto erik "Timothy C. Phan" wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there any VPN client software for Linux? TIA! > > --- > tcp > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I use pptp for my adsl connection which goes through a vpn. As far as I know there is no pptp package for potato, so I downloaded the source and patched it with a woody patch. Greetings, Sebastiaan On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any VPN client software