[CentOS] Choosing VPN Server

Brian Mathis brian.mathis at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 15:33:04 UTC 2007


On 9/19/07, Wei Yu <zig.wei at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am facing a task of choosing vpn server. I do not know which is better.
> The one distributed with CentOS4.5 only supports pppd (or maybe pptp but I
> cannot find it).
> If I want to use PPTP or L2TP, which one should I choose? OpenVPN? Poptop?
>
> Thanks.
>

I suggest OpenVPN.  It's modern, very secure, and had a wide range of
options and usage scenarios.  PPTP / L2TP is a pain to get working,
and it has some security issues.



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