On Mon, Nov 24, 2008, "Germ?n Andr?s Pulido F." wrote:
Hi
I've been using linux to give VPN access to my corporate LAN using the following software:
Centos 5.2 x86 kernel 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5xen pptpd (poptop) 1.3.4 ppp 2.4.4
Headaches deleted.
I would highly recommend using OpenVPN rather than using pptp, OpenVPN doesn't require kernel support as it's built on top of SSL, is far more secure than PPTP (the product of ``Kindergarten Cryptographers'' according to one well-know security paper), and there are clients for all flavors of Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
Some of our clients used PPTP when we were using SuSE Enterprise Linux, but we moved them to OpenVPN when we moved to CentOS. I had been trying to get them off PPTP anyway, and CentOS's lack of standard support was the factor that got them to consider OpenVPN. I wrote a couple of scripts to automatically generate the OpenVPN certificates for clients making it easy for unsophisticated clients to install them on their Windows and Macs machines, and they now are much happier than the were with PPTP.
Bill