Re: [Sheflug] Eek : VPN

[Alan Pope <alan.pope [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:30:57 +0100, Chris Johnson <chris [at] seseaz.org.uk> wrote:
> Anyone got any suggestions as to where to start to learn about how to link
> my LAN at home to my lan at work through VPNs over the internet?  I've found
> a few websites to look at but wondered if the rest of you had any favourites
> that are good for starters.  A lot of the sites seem concerned that you
> should have windows XP client and windows 2003 server host but I don't want
> it to be limited to this.  Ideally I'd like both LANs to be linked rather
> than 1 PC on each LAN.  Can anyone see any issues with this proposal?
> 
> 

OpenVPN is what you want. Can be Windows (2000 or above) or Linux either end.

http://openvpn.sf.net/

Cheers,
Al.
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