VPN Server

[Tia Haenni]

Speaking of VPN, does anyone know of a Linux VPN solution? We have tried
a few times to get it configured, but haven't been able to get there
yet. :-(

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Chris Midkiff
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 2:43 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: VPN Server

I need to set up a VPN server, so that our people can connect from 
their Win2k clients at home.  At this point, I'm just doing the 
research, and would love to hear some ideas.  I've use VPN Clients 
before, but don't know much about the server side of things.

Has anyone ever done this?  The VPN Howto that I found talks about 
patching (which I have not done) and building (which I have done) a 
new kernel, with X25 support.  This howto also show setting up a 
valid IP Address for people to connect from.  Most of these people 
are dial-up users, and I have no idea what their address will be.

There are several special purpose distro's that have support for VPN 
and X25, such as SmoothWall linux.  Anyone have any experience with 
one of these packages?

Also, we use a SpeedStream DSL Router that lists SecureVPN as an 
optional component.  Might that be worth looking into?

Chris Midkiff
DataCapture Technologies, INC.
Chris at datacaptech.com