Fun with PPTP, our funky VPN

[daemons <daemons@cfl.rr.com>]

greets,

Today we had a interesting request VPN wise.  A client across the country
is running a PPTP server on FreeBSD-3.3S box so their win boxes can have
some sort of VPN, anyway.  Being insistent that my trusty obsd box be used
on this end I went to work.  The freebsd pptp-linux port compiled without
a hitch (ports/net/pptpclient) and confiuration was simply adding a entry
defined on the server side in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets and then adding a
entry in /etc/ppp.conf that was shown in /usr/local/share/examples/pptpclient.
Fired right up, it estabishes the tun0 link and after three route commands
was working fine.

So go start replacing those damn NT VPN servers ;-)

Yes, isakmpd esp/ah is nicer.  But I thought it kinda funny that two BSD
boxen were pretending to be a NT VPN server/client and working quite well.
My OpenBSD box here is a blazing 486dx2/66 with 24 megs of ram...

peace,

-aaron