VPN tool (PPTP) on FC6 ?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 15:20:45 UTC 2006


On 11/11/06, Patrick <fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 00:21 +0000, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On 11/10/06, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> > > kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com wrote:
> > > > Hi List;
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions for client PPTP VPN tools on FC6 ?
> > >
> > > What do you mean by "VPN tool"?  Are you looking for a PPTP client
> > on Linux?
> > >
> > > If so....
> > >
> > > http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/
> > >
> > > maybe what you seek.
> > >
> > >
> > PPTP is all you will need...watch out...you have to manually set the
> > routing.
>
> Watch out... it is not very secure. A better solution is to use OpenVPN.
>

I'm guessing he is trying to connect to a VPN of which he has no control.

> http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/protocol-security.phtml
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/index.php?p=21
> http://www.schneier.com/paper-pptpv2.html
>
> Regards,
> Patrick
>
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