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  From: Richard Russell <richard@yellowgoanna.com>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: 28 May 2002 09:50:35 +0930

FreeS/WAN and PoPToP VPN Hell

Hi all,

I'm struggling with a VPN setup here...

Situation is that I need secure comms via internet from a Private
192.168.x.y LAN behind a static IP Debian gateway machine to roving
users on Windows 95|98|ME|NT4|2000|XP laptops and home PCs, which
presumably will be on real IPs, but I guess I can't garantee that.

Pretty normal, eh?

So I've tried both FreeS/WAN (IPSec) and PoPToP (PPTP), and so far, have
failed on each one.

I have ipsec installed and configured on the gateway, no worries. Took a
kernel recompile, but it worked. Created my keys, and away we go. The
other end is harder. The other end, you see, is Windows (XP Pro atm).

Getting a certificate was tough. Eventually, I got two -- one from an MS
testing site, and one from openssl via linux. However, I can't, for the
life of me, figure out how to get the public key out of it. It may be
that I'm just not thinking here...

PoPToP looked easier, but it seems to require kernel patches that aren't
available for my kernel (2.4.18), as well as pppd patches that aren't
available for my version of pppd (2.4.1)... at least, I can't find
them...


Anyone successfully got this running in a similar config -- either ipsec
or pptp? I'd love to have a chat...


rr


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