Subject: Re: VPN help
To: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
From: None <tlaronde@polynum.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/28/2007 20:19:39
Hello,

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:52:15AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> I'm new to setting up my own VPN, but I'd like some guidance to
> software which meets these criteria:
> 
> Server runs on NetBSD (preferably from pkgsrc)
> 
> Client runs on NetBSD, Linux, OSX, and Windows.
> 
> If different client programs are required, that's fine I guess as long
> as it works.
> 
> Any suggestions? I have used VPN software, but I don't really know
> anything about it. If I need to study first, suggestions on that would
> be good too.

I imagine that openvpn:
	http://openvpn.net/

is one of the solutions (I don't use it myself; but it's in pkgsrc
and seems to be the preferred free solution nowadays).

And if you have only limited, scarce needs, ppp over ssh is a solution
(for Unix based system; for Windows, I don't know if there is something
like pppd(8)).
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