[asterisk-biz] wanted vpn dialer

[Conrad Wood]

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 21:33 +0700, Dome C. wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/4/06, Conrad Wood <asterisk-biz at conradwood.net> wrote:
>         On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 14:53 +0700, Dome C. wrote:
>         > Why not use pptp ?
>         > you can setup by yourself http://www.poptop.org/
>         >
>         it's probably not the best choice. It's got security problems
>         and is 
>         very non-free.
> 
> No cost. window all version include pptp client. and pptp server on
> linux is opensource.

no cost yes, but I am pretty sure some part of the windows integration
was heavily limited unless you pay some microsoft license somewhere.
Are you sure? Maybe my information is out of date.
> 
> 
>         Have you looked at http://www.openvpn.org and ipsec
>         implementations?
>         They can be made to 'dial' too.
> 
> if you want to use openvpn windows client not easy.
> http://openvpn.se/install.txt
> but if you bundle  some equipment like a Linksys WRT54G you can add
> openvpn inside.

It really is well worth the effort. It's stable, clever, robust and
secure. And the openvpn guis make the installation dead simple.

disclaimer: no I didn't write/distribute openvpn ;-) - just happy user.