[olug] VPN

[Rob Townley]

 SAM!
According to WikiPedia, "PPTP is (as of Oct 2012) considered
cryptographically broken and its use is no longer recommended by
Microsoft."
According to the rest of the world, PPTP has been broken for several years.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point_Tunneling_Protocol#cite_note-7>

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Sam Flint <harmonicnm7h at gmail.com> wrote:

> pptp is easy enough to set up...
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Tim Larson <larson at towncommons.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On 11/13/2012 9:41 AM, Jon Steckelberg wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have a question for you all.  The company I work for has windows
>> based
>> >> systems.  We contract out our IT to Midwest Technology Solutions Inc.
>> >> here locally.  They do not have any Linux expertise on staff.  I
>> >> personally use Linux Mint on all my computers.  Now for my question, I
>> >> would like to VPN into the work network from my Linux Mint 13 laptop.
>> >> What is the best way to set this up?  I know this is a complicated
>> issue
>> >> and if anyone would like to contact me directly please do.
>> >>
>> >
>> > In my (limited) experience, this depends greatly on the VPN
>> implementation
>> > being used.  In theory, there are VPN standards that should be
>> > interoperable.  In practice, I never could get Macs or *nixen to
>> connect to
>> > the Cisco VPN used by a former employer, as it wouldn't work with the
>> Free
>> > client implementations, and their own clients for those platforms were
>> > lacking or nonexistent.
>> >
>> > All you can do is get all the pertinent info (IP, keys, etc.) from them
>> > and try to set it up. Prepare to be flexible and do troubleshooting
>> > yourself from your end, report the difficulties you see (if any), and
>> > hopefully support from their side is better than just "it would work if
>> you
>> > did XYZ in Windows, so nyah!"  Being Windows-based does not necessarily
>> > imply a MS monoculture. ☺
>> >
>> >
>> Jon,
>>  there are different types of VPN they could have set up.  Would have to
>> know the existing type currently setup at your work.
>>  If your employer allows, setup up a VPN server at home which your machine
>> at work automatically connects to upon bootup.
>>  i use tinc-vpn.org myself because it is completely opensource and in my
>> yum repositories,  LinMacWin crossplatform, allows me to have multiple
>> "servers' and runs as a service even with no user logged on.
>>  However, you oughta go with something more standard at least until it is
>> easier to use.
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