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

[Ryan Verner]

> Usually I end up with conflicting kernel patches or it just not 
> working. Getting it going without encryption has never been a 
> problem though :) 

http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-debian.phtml

That's worked incredibly well on Debian for me; I don't follow the instructions exactly, 
but the ppp tarball linked with the mppe patches have been fine for me for 2.4.18/19/
20, and I've never had any conflicts (I usually patch in a whole bunch of other things on 
most kernels, including grsec, sensors, etc).

R

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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