Re: VPN software

[jbittner@xxxxxxx]

I've come in contact with the cisco gear. Other than being
cisco(expensive) it was rather smooth for windows users. If your routers
are linux based, I have also heard wonderful reviews of smoothwall.
In regards to your ping problems, On windows boxes, I'd always check the
default firewall rules. With a service pack awhile ago i remember hearing
about the rules not allowing pings. It's always another thing to check.
Best of luck.
~James


> Adam,
>
> On Jul 28, 2004, at 8:51 AM, Adam Shirey wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of halfway decent VPN software that's not a pain to
>> setup? (I'm looking for a Windows VPN primarily, but Linux also would
>> be
>> good.)
> Ipsec I have heard is good on doing vpns.  I have set up vpns before
> with my parents and friends using secvpn, which is a perl script in the
> Debian tree which automatically creates a PPP interface and makes a
> 'routing' connection through that interface, which ultimately goes
> through a ssh tunnel to a host / client and returns vice versa.
>
>> SF.net has OpenVPN that looks pretty good, but I've not got it working
>> properly. The remote host to which I was trying to establish a
>> connection
>> could ping me using the VPN IP (10.0.0.27), but I couldn't ping him
>> (10.0.0.13). I am behind a router, though I would think that it would
>> be
>> the other way around - me pinging him but not him to me. Furthermore,
>> Windows' ipconfig shows my LAN IP but nothing about the VPN.
> Never used OpenVPN.  Though I probably wouldn't since it sounds as if
> it doesn't have encryption.
>
>> If anyone knows much about OpenVPN or has recommendations on VPN
>> software
>> that is easy to setup, I'd appreciate it.
>
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