VPN with Fedora - PPTP

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at web.de
Thu Apr 1 13:59:30 UTC 2004


Am Do, den 01.04.2004 schrieb Sébastien Bisoglio um 01:31:

>  
> I know IPSec is better but my ISP router can't route packets for IPSEC 
> vpn... I can just route TCP or UDP packets !

Don't mix the different layers of transport, see
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP :-)

You can run IPSec, OpenVPN _through_ UPD or TCP.

L2TP (http://www.l2tpd.org/; there also is a src.rpm avalable at
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=26&dist=37&size=147237&name=l2tpd-0.69-1foo.src.rpm, but I did not try to rebuild it under Fedora) is also possible _through_ UDP, although it's a little tricky.

> I dont'know what is open-VPN... L2TP ? Ipsec ? PPTP ? OTher ?

Other, udp based transport with encryption based on openssl. Also works
with tcp but udp is far better and easier with firewalling.

Christoph







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