RE: VPN

["Mugleston, Brad" <brad mugleston gwl com>]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Rouillier [mailto:guy-rouillier speakeasy net]
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 8:12 PM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: VPN


Mugleston, Brad wrote:

> I just upgraded to RedHat 9 and thought I'd use the supplied
> VPN software to connect to work rather than the CISCO version from work
> as it's really designed to go with Windows and doesn't work that great.
> 
> Some background you may need.
> 
> I'm hooking into an NT server then into my Windows2000 machine on my
> desk (or that's the plan).  I can ping the NT server from home fine. 
> One strange thing is I did traceroute to the NT server and when it was
> finished (30 rows of three stars) it came back with the prompt and
> "username = #########" with the ####### being MY work user name (not the
> user name on my home machine).
> 
> Anyway, when I go to Start ==> Internet ===> More ===> Remote Desktop
> Connection and click on that the first message I get is SLP not
> installed correctly.
> 
> So, I guess my first question is = how do I set up SLP?  I looked
> through the WEBMIN screens but I see no place to set up SLP.

Don't know about this SLP, but we are using pptpclient off sourcefource 
to connect a Linux box at home to a Microsoft VPN at work.  If I read 
your message correctly, your employer is using Microsoft VPN.  If so, 
that has a proprietary encryption (mppe), and pptpclient supports that. 
  I'm doing this under Mandrake.

> 
Guy may have said something important here.  Is it possible that I have to
be using compatible VPN programs on both ends?  The one they gave me to use
was by CISCO (they make both a Windows and a Linux version).  If that is the
case then that may be where my problem is.  I would have thought they would
be more generic.


If this is the case how does everyone see the screen on the other end?  This
is what happens.  I start up the CISCO version of VPN and it connects me
with the computers here at work.  I've got two or three logons/passwords I
need to give then I'm there (not sure where there is).  After that I need to
open my web browser and using the java scripts from PCAnywhere I login again
and the screen on my computer is the same screen I left on at my desk at
work.  Normally I have to login again but I now have my work screen
displaying on my Linux box at home.

In talking with others that do this under Windows theirs seems to be running
faster than my setup does.  The part that is slowing me down, I believe, is
the java scripting part as I'm only using part of the PCAnywhere program.

How does everyone else do this?

Brad