2010/11/24 Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com>: > 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. remember to avoid pptp protocol, because it's usually pain in the .. -- Eero