[NCLUG] Please Help

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 09:34:17AM -0600, Michael Dwyer wrote:
>I was never able to get PPTP to work for me.  This was almost two years
>ago, so things might be better by now, but I digress...  The quick thing

We've been able to set up PPTP and get it to work to a Linux box.  The
biggest barrier is Winders crappy error messages...

>Finally, for what it is worth, I found that for connecting two networks
>together, linux boxes running CIPE worked beautifully!  It wasn't useful

I'd also recommend CIPE.  There is a client for Winders (which I, not
suprisingly, haven't used), and it's pretty simple to deal with.  It's
slightly more complicated to use than vpnd (which just provides a tunnel
for SLIP data), but it does seem to work nicely.  vpnd is nice because you
don't have to build kernel modules to make things work.

I should modify vpnd to use UDP packets instead of TCP, so that it doesn't
melt down because of retransmits...

Sean
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