Connecting to Microsoft VPN
neil
neilcuk at aol.com
Tue May 4 12:46:00 UTC 2004
gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk wrote:
>On Saturday 01 May 2004 3:29 am, Christoph Wickert wrote:
>
>
>>Am Sa, den 01.05.2004 schrieb Christoph Wickert um 04:07:
>>
>>
>>>(You need to have kernelsources installed. You will need them anyway,
>>>for the module bsd_comp.o is missing in the fedora kernel (WHY??). So
>>>you have turn bsd-compression off or rebuild the module for your kernel,
>>>at least that's what I did.)
>>>
>>>
>>Ooops; I forgot the most important step:
>>download and install:
>>http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pptpclient/pptp-linux-1.4.0-1.i386.rpm
>>
>>[snipped]
>>
>>Christoph
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>>
>
>
>However, if you search the net, you will find MANY documents telling you why
>you should not do this. PPTP is a VERY insecure method.
>
>(Sorry bit I can't cite anything specific here as it's a while since I
>investigated this stuff - I decided on the more restrictive but more secure
>port forwarding over SSH. (Other methods are available. No guarantee is
>provided either implied..........you know what I mean)).
>
>
yeah - you'd be better of using IPSEC IMHO
neil
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