FreeBSD mpd PPTP client connection to SnapGearLITE+

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 23:42, Walentyn wrote:
> >      Supports MPPE (draft-ietf-pppext-mppe)  MPPE is Microsoft Point to
> > Point Encryption scheme.  It is possible to configure ppp to participate
> > in Microsoft's Windows VPN.  For now, ppp can only get encryption keys
> > from CHAP 81 authentication.  ppp must be compiled with DES for MPPE to
> > oper- ate.
>
> I stand corrected.
>
> From my previous reading, it looked like there were a whole bunch of
> disparate patches to give ppp MMPE functionality.  From the quoted manual
> section, it seems that it has rudimentary functionality if you compile it
> yourself.  (I prefer NOT to roll my own.)

Only if you build world with -DNO_CRYPTO does PPP not have DES support.

I have had userland ppp as both a client and server for doing MPPE with.

> Also from what I read, it would appear that netgraph/mpd, etc. is a more
> integrated more cleanly coded implementation that should work very well --
> if you can get it to work, that is.  :)

<shrugs>
Try ppp and see if it works.

> I'll tinker with my set up for another day or two.  If I'm able to get it
> working I'll report.  Otherwise, I found that SnapGear may be dead as a
> company but Cyberguard still supports it and has come out with some very
> interesting new products, in particular a PCI NIC firewall/VPN (see URL
> below) which might just be what I need.
>
> http://www.cyberguard.com/products/firewall/SG_Family/SG630.html?lang=de_EN

Looks kind of neat but IMO a bit of a waste of money :)

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