RE: PPTP and SAM and OBSD?

[Olivier Cherrier <Olivier.Cherrier@cediti.be>]

>On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 carl@bl.echidna.id.au wrote:
>We use PPTP for authentication on a large wlan. Wroks great with mostly
>all OSes. *BSD, Linux, Amiga and all Win platforms. According to the
>PoPToP web page, there is now support for 128bit encryption, but we
>haven't upgraded yet. On Win boxes, you use the 'suppotr for VPN' or
>something. and DUN 1.2 (Win95se and above, or dl an upgrade). 
>Please note
>that our network uses FreeBSD as the PoPToP server. Not sure 
>how it would
>work with OpenBSD. The client works fine, though.

In desactivating the GRE device and recompiling a new kernel, I already set
up Poptop on a 2.7 box.
It worked well but this configuration didn't support encryption. So, it
isn't a recommended solution.

Olivier


>
>>
>> A friend of mine has a M$ network, and a OBSD firewall 
>(IPF).  He wants to
>> access his LAN via PPTP, a scan through the archives shows 
>reference to PoPToP,
>> but I can't find anything about it on www.openbsd.org.  He wants to
>> use SAM (some M$ auth setup, I think) to authenticate
>> his PPTP users.  Again, no luck looking for it on the lists 
>or the website.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest where I shuold look in order to give him 
>advice as to what
>> he can do?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Carl
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>--
>regards/mvh
>Stein B. Sylvarnes
>stein.sylvarnes@student.uib.no
>
>