VPN server in Fedora

[Itamar Reis Peixoto]

there are no poptop for fedora because no one packaged it for fedora.

you can do it if you want.


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Mark Ryden <markryde at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> - I found out that there are two common ways to run a VPN server
> on Linux. One way is using ipsec, with projects like openswan/strongswan.
> The other is running pptpd server; this implements a Virtual Private
> Networking Server (VPN) that iscompatible with Microsoft VPN clients,
> and allows windows users to
> connect to an internal firewalled network using their dialup.
> See http://poptop.sourceforge.net/.
>
> When looking for rpms for Fedora 11 or Fedora 10, I found out that
> there is no pptpd
> ("yum install pptpd" results in
> No package pptpd available.
> Nothing to do).
> There is however, openswan rpm for fedora 10 or 11.
>
> My question is: what is the reason that there is no pptp rpm packages for
> newer Fedora distros ? is some other solution replaces it ? is there a better
> Linux VPN server solution which enables Microsoft VPN clients to connect to
> a Linux VPN server ?
>
> Regards,
> Mark
>
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