[pptp-server] LINUX PPTPD VS NT PPTP

[Yan Seiner]

See inline.

Sergio Dominguez wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> 
>  I have a working PPTP server with Linux. I was told to do
> VPN with PPTP at my work and I did it with LInux, simply cause
> I didnt want to get into problems with NT.
> 
>   Thing is, now my boss is asking pros and cons about using
> Linux instead of NT for PPTP, so I dont know ir for sure.
> 
>  I know the big pros about Linux as an OS ( thats why I used
> it in the first place ) but what I want is a more precise list
> of pros in the PPTP server area.
> 

Pros:  	more stable than NT RAS (I have had absolutely horrible luck
with RAS)
	Easier to administer remotely (I have diagnosed a network failure from
half a world away on a borrowed computer)
	Rock reliable once configured

Cons:	Takes a while to get configured (NT is quicker out of the box)
	NT account management is more integrated (but see my response to
another thread)

>  the first thing that comes to my mind is that an NT server
> can handles only three PPTP processes at atime, is it right?
> 

Actually, it will handle as many as you configure AFAIK.  There may be
some resource starvation with RAS, though.  RAS is the most buggy piece
of commercial software I have ever encoutered.

--Yan

>  TIA for your comments.
> 
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