[pptp-server] NEWBIE QUESTION

Nate Carlson natecars at real-time.com
Mon Dec 13 15:09:55 CST 1999


On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Simon Munro wrote:

> 
> PoPToP sounds great for allowing remote clients to connect to a 
> LAN. However from what I can gather PoPTop couldn't be used to 
> join 2 LANs over the Internet to form a WAN?
> 
> Does anyone know of a product that will connect 2 LAN's together 
> over the Internet - i.e. a VPN connecting 2 subnets. 
> 
> This can be done using NT & RRAS however I would much rather 
> use Linux.
> 
> 
> TIA
> Simon
> 

FreeS/WAN can do this. Nab the url from Freshmeat (www.freshmeat.net).
Although, with the proper combination of the pptp client and pptpd server,
you could probably use pptp for all of this..

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