VPN through BSD for Win2k, totally baffled

[The Anarcat]

On mer mai 07, 2003 at 10:04:32 -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> I've been using PPTP for this purpose. Microsoft's PPTP implementation
> is pretty brain dead, but if you're willing to bend the configuration
> of your network a little to accommodate it and configure your clients
> carefully, you can set up a VPN that's accessible from most versions 
> of Windows. Not super-secure, but secure enough for most purposes.
> 
> I have been interested in trying L2TP, but am not sure about the
> stability of the server software for FreeBSD. And I can't find
> a FreeBSD client. (There's an L2TP netgraph node, but there are
> no docs on how to use it with mpd and likewise nothing on how to 
> use it with userland PPP.)

I found that the mpd client is pretty easy to setup and really
powerful.

PPTP has the advantage of working out of the box over NAT or whatever
odd network you can have.

A.