Topic: Standard SME PPTP Vpn vs OpenVpn

[eiceic]

I have had great luck with the out of the box support for PPTP VPN using Windows XP and SME 6.01.   The only problem I ever have is when I'm behind an SME server and want to connect to another SME server via VPN -- it works about 75% of the time.

I'm considering installing Open VPN (http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/index.html?frame=http%3A//sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/howtos/howto_30.html)
  and I had a few questions 1st:

   * will OpenVPN knock out my current PPTP VPN functionality on my servers or workstations?
   * is it possible to just do a server to server link with my PPTP VPN servers so that I can just keep using PPTP?

Thanks,

Chris Buechler

[Franco]

You can't beat OpenVPN, not only the 100% functionality but also the packet overhead.
1-You can have both VPN's in place, (although OpenVPN is way more secure).
2- Yes, http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/
But I would also suggest looking into OpenVPN client.
http://openvpn.net/

hth

[linuxguy]

I've been trying to get to swerts-knudsen OpenVPN howto but all I get is a blank page saying data can not be loaded. Does anyone know if the site has moved? All I get is a blank page, thanks for your help.

[genzil]

The site is down, see http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=27773.0

[linuxguy]

Thanks for the ino..

[duncan]

Have a look here.

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dthomas/smeserver/6.x/Beta/Openvpn/

Regards Duncan

[linuxguy]

Thanks for the reply, both sites helped out a lot, I got everything I needed, thank you so much.