[Linux-aus] How to build a tunnel from PuTTY

[Stewart Smith]

Usually I end up with conflicting kernel patches or it just not 
working. Getting it going without encryption has never been a problem 
though :)
On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 03:54  AM, Ryan Verner wrote:

> Stewart,
>
>> That way, we get encryption that we *know* works (PPTP encryption
>> has proved constantly problematic) and a protocol that we *know*
>
> Can I ask how exactly it's proved constantly problematic?
>
> When you say PPTP encryption; I'm assuming you're using Windows 
> clients, with
> poptop running on Linux (?) - it needs a bit of taming, but there'a a 
> few
> outdoor wireless links I've installed running 24/7 with pptp tunnels 
> that
> haven't been problematic at all, and believe me, the wireless links 
> can be a
> pain (dropouts, missed packets, noise), so its quite a robust test of 
> how well
> it stands up, if configured properly.
>
> (IHMO, frees/wan > poptop in many ways - which I normally use, just 
> that there
> doesn't seem to be as many ipsec clients as there are pptp clients, so 
> in some
> instances with strange client machines its more suited.)
>
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