Hi,
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 02:35:49PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> has anyone successfully used a PPTP connection between a NetBSD machine
> and a Windows VPN server?
>
> I tried with the net/pptp package, but failed miserably.
> Its examples all use MPPE options, which are (according to pppd(8)) not
> available on NetBSD.
There's "pkgsrc/net/mppe-lkm", which adds MPPE as LKM...
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gert@kirk:/usr/pkgsrc/net/mppe-lkm$ cat DESCR
To get encryption over a PPTP connection, you need the kernel to support the
MPPE algorithm. It is used as a PPP compression module, and the mppe-lkm
package provides a LKM (Loadable Kernel Module) that will install the
functionality into your NetBSD kernel.
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I'm not sure whether it still *works* - last time I tried it was some
5+ years ago on NetBSD/Sparc64 3.1, but at that time, pptp with mppe
worked fine.
(Admittedly, I was not talking to a Windows Server, but to a Linux box,
but that box also had Windows clients and enforced mppe, so I assume
it would have worked against a Windows Server as well)
> Are there any other software options?
You *might* want to read this:
http://www.heise.de/security/artikel/Der-Todesstoss-fuer-PPTP-1701365.html
and reconsider using PPTP for anything across networks that you do not
know and fully trust (it can still be *useful*, but never ever trustworthy).
I'm currently moving all my customers that are using PPTP towards OpenVPN
(happy to answer questions regarding OpenVPN).
gert
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