Voyaging into VPNs

RBH · Apprentice Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 184

I'm looking to set up a VPN, but am a little apprehensive as past attempts (excluding Hamachi, which is fine until you want to customise a little more) have left me irritated.

The VPN solutions must be:

Useable by both Windows and *nix computers.
Simple to set up on at least a basic level. I want it to work without much hassle, but have the option of a more in-depth configuration.
In Portage, ideally.

Anyone want to make any suggestions? Or throw me any links to sites I may find useful.

Thanks in advance

lghman · Guru Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Florida

Have you had a look at OpenVPN. I don't know if you would call it simple, but it works on Windows and is in portage.
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pholthau · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject:

OpenVPN is great. Maybe you want to have a look at this: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-547061-highlight-.html
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RBH · Apprentice Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 184

Mm, I did indeed look at OpenVPN.

I should have stated this more clearly - ideally I need to be able to connect to the VPN with a Windows box without installing any extra software. I know that there are different kinds of VPN (if memory serves, Windows plays nice with IPSec?), but I'm not educated enough on the subject to know what I should be looking at.

However, I got some good reading from the openvpn site, thank you