gary.stainburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Saturday 01 May 2004 3:29 am, Christoph Wickert wrote:
Am Sa, den 01.05.2004 schrieb Christoph Wickert um 04:07:
(You need to have kernelsources installed. You will need them anyway,
for the module bsd_comp.o is missing in the fedora kernel (WHY??). So
you have turn bsd-compression off or rebuild the module for your kernel,
at least that's what I did.)
Ooops; I forgot the most important step: download and install: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pptpclient/pptp-linux-1.4.0-1.i386.rpm
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Christoph
However, if you search the net, you will find MANY documents telling you why you should not do this. PPTP is a VERY insecure method.
(Sorry bit I can't cite anything specific here as it's a while since I investigated this stuff - I decided on the more restrictive but more secure port forwarding over SSH. (Other methods are available. No guarantee is provided either implied..........you know what I mean)).
yeah - you'd be better of using IPSEC IMHO
neil
