Re: pptp vpn

For what it's worth, I've found SuSE makes a great PPTP server, and have
been using it for years. I VPN in through Linksys & Nexland routers and it
works fine (had to port forward the router protecting the SuSE box, but
that's it). I've use both OS X & M$ XP clients to connect and both work
beautifully.
On 10/13/06, Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net> wrote:
>
> After reading your email I did a quick Google search.
>
> Both PPTP and IPSec can go through a NAT firewall if the firewall has
> been configured to do so. Wireless hot spots and Internet Cafes that use
> broad band routers like Linksys may not have this feature turned on. I
> also looked into Cisco PIX firewalls. It apperies that PPTP through NAT
> is not a default setting. I'm not a Cisco guy so I'm not sure if this is
> the case.
>
> With SSL based VPN's you don't need to turn anything on. It just works.
> Assuming you have the server and client configured correctly.
>
> Now about the m$ part of your email. Who would ever do network security
> with m$?
>
>
>
> ep wrote:
> > "PPTP doesn't work with NAT"
> >
> > Grrrrr, m$ pptp DOES works with nat (and recent routers have moved
> beyond
> > the ugly hack...). If he's m$ pptp client to m$ pptp server it's fine (I
> > believe his client/server is rolling m$ pptp). In fact, just to cover
> that
> > 1%; to make sure I wasn't about to stuff my foot in my mouth. I just
> labbed
> > it up again, even though I did this already in a recent pentest...
> >
> >
> > Client------FW(nat)--------------(nat)FW---------Server
> >
> > IT WORKS! LMAO READ AGAIN, IT WORKS!
> >
> > Tgif AKLUG, now back to work.
> >
> > --eddie
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf
> Of
> > Damien Hull
> > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 11:19 AM
> > To: aklug@aklug.org
> > Subject: Re: pptp vpn
> >
> > What you want for this is OpenVPN. It does everything over SSL. This is
> > really cool because you can us it through a firewall. A lot of firewalls
> do
> > network address translation or NAT for short. PPTP doesn't work with
> NAT.
> > You can get fancy routers that tag each packet but it's a hack. You are
> > better off using an SSL based VPN.
> >
> > If you are connecting Windows clients to your home network just get
> IPCop.
> > There is a module for OpenVPN. There should be a way to connect Linux
> > clients to IPCop but I havn't had time to look into it.
> >
> > Here's the site for OpenVPN: http://openvpn.net/
> >
> > Admin tool: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openvpnadmin/
> >
> > Blake Eggemeyer wrote:
> >
> >> i set up a small server at home
> >> i want to acess it from school, so that i can save my CompSci hwk on
> it.
> >> i have a router, the pptp option is enabled how do i tell the MS vpn
> >> software that my routed IP is 66.58.216.90 and my server adress is
> >> 192.168.1.5 any ideas?
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