On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Bill Campbell wrote: > >> We use OpenVPN for most things, and pptp (poptop) for connections >> where the OpenVPN client's aren't available (e.g. iPad, iPhone, >> iPod Touch). > > Is there anything to make you choose pptp over IPSec? There are a number of > issues with PPTP that'd make me push it down my list of ideal VPNs. >From personal experience, it's lighter weight to set up on the server, it's compatible with Windows client's built-in VPN clients without emotianal pain or traume, it doesn't require awkward client setups of third party components, and it keeps you away from the very expensive and so feature-filled, it's useless mongolian !@#$!@$#! that is the Cisco tool suite.