VPN with Fedora - PPTP

Sébastien Bisoglio bsebastien at bluewin.ch
Thu Apr 1 17:50:38 UTC 2004


Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
> 
>  >>>>>>>> I dont'know what is open-VPN... L2TP ? Ipsec ? PPTP ? OTher ?
> 
> OpenVPN is very good. Use it if you can.
I want to test i when I've TIme but I can't add those mirror to yum :

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/openvpn/
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/kernel-module-freeswan/

> 
>  >>>> The SSL packets is the 445 TCP port right ?
>  >>>>
>  >>>> If yes it's Ok i can...
>  >
>  >>The normal SSL port is 443.
> 
>  > yes Sorry..
> 
> Port 443 is HTTPS. That's not SSL port. SSL port doesn't exists. It's 
> just a protocol on top of another one (like HTTPS cs HTTP, or LDAPS vs 
> LDAP) for securing the transmission.
> 
> 
>  > a VPN withSSL encryption is on the 443 port only or not ?
> 
> 443 => HTTPS, nothing related to VPN.
> OpenVPN use the port you want, but the default is 5000
> You can use OpenVPN with UDP or TCP packets, on a user-defined port.
> 
> Voila.
> -jec
> 
> 






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