> -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Nugent [mailto:tony@linuxworks.com.au] > Sent: Wed, November 20, 2002 4:11 AM > To: psyche-list@redhat.com > Subject: Re: A thought about psyche > > > On Tue Nov 19 2002 at 17:43, Justin Zygmont wrote: > > > i'm willing to bet that MS PPTP is propriatory. There's a > lot of things > > that open source programmers would include, if it was possible. > > The pptp _protocol_ is described in an RFC. > > However, the _implementation_ of that protocol (along with > non-standard extensions and so on) are a different matter... m$ have > a long history of breaking things for others with their products. > Their motto for a long time has been to embrace, extend, extinguish. > Talk of this new palladium chip is the new-age version of this > policy. I don't think this is the case with PPTP. Someone in our company made a simple PPTP server once, based only on the RFC and it worked fine with MS clients. Also, http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-redhat-80.phtml > > The pptpd package used to come with redhat (probably in the > powertools), I'm not sure why it is no longer included. Perhaps the > software might have a non-gpl licence (I'm not sure). It would be > good to have it there as standard. > > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Alan Peery wrote: > > > > > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > There are areas that will turn power users of Microsoft > right off. It > > > was really nice to see a VPN connection offered in "neat" > in a standard > > > install--but it doesn't work. (Missing a directory and a > device, two > > > items that appear if you install everything.) The VPN > uses CIPE, not > > > Microsoft PPTP--which makes it completely unusable in an already > > > existing infrastructure... > > I have win98se clients connecting to a vpn server on a rh73 box, and > it works well. Have things changed with the pptpd daemon and/or VPN > with win2k or xp? > > > > Alan > > Cheers > Tony > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
