Re: VPN with Fedora - PPTP

[Christoph Wickert <christoph wickert web de>]

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.

> 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...

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