VPN Gateway to M$ Windows

[Murray Taylor]

If you consider 2 to be less than 17 then the version numbers make
sense.

(its a variant of the Y2K syndrome ... do we need to use multi digit
version numbers as in 3.02 which is visibly earlier than 3.17 ;-)

Yes I got caught in this version thingy in mpg also ( 3.8 vs 3.10 )

mjt


On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 23:44, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> The wind doesn't seem to be blowing in my direction. Either I am getting
> crazy or just losing touch. I am reading all the doco I can lay my hands
> on about setting up a VPN gw and this is to use MPD. Now there is a nice
> page (I love the setup notes this guy made!) here:
> 
> http://www.itga.com.au/~gnb/vpn/pptp-serv.html
> 
> It talks about mpd-3.2 and 3.3 and this was written long ago. But
> looking at my ports (4.9-STABLE and 5.2.1-RELEASE) the Makefile in
> the /usr/ports/net/mpd show it's version 3.17.
> 
> At the time of writing his doco, March 2001, Gregory he says that mpd
> was at version 3.2. That has lost me!
> Was the port downgraded? Does anyone know if the patches for
> external-auth were made part of the 3.17 port??
> 
> OK. I would like to setup a VPN gateway to a Microsuck Windows box. I've
> had suggestions to use Cisco PIX for this, but I was wondering what it
> is that the Cisco thingy will do that FreeBSD with MPD won't do. I am
> also looking at other "secure implementations" of this project. I'm
> still googling (giggling ;-)) but any other pointers are most welcome.
> 
> 
> -Wash
> 
> http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
> 
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