Re: [WinMac] VPN support for Mac...

From: Curtis Wilcox (cwcx[at]mail.rochester.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2000 - 07:08:06 PDT

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    At 07:00 AM 6/8/2000 -0400, Ken Wieschhoff wrote:
    >>At 6:22 AM -0400 6/7/00, Ken Wieschhoff wrote:
    >>>Anyone know of any Mac software which will allow for secure
    >>>tunneling? Does 2000 Server offer this?
    >> To what type of server? Point to point tunnelling? In other
    >>words, do you already have a VPN solution in place for Wintel and now
    >>want to add Mac OS, or are you starting scratch?
    >
    >
    >Scratch. I'm aware that W2K Server has "something" built in, I'm not
    >aware of the specifics and if there's a Mac client. We're open to any
    >solutions. Thanks.

    PGP Freeware has something called PGPNet which can create encrypted tunnels
    between any two hosts. You need to purchase it for commercial use but the
    commericial version has the added ability connect to VPN gateways. When it
    first came out, I tried to get it to work between my home Mac and office
    WinNT machines but was not successful. I'll admit that I'm not very
    experienced with PGP but the documentation also seemed rather lacking, at
    least on the PGPNet component. Perhaps things have improved in that area.

    http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html

    NTS TunnelBuilder is a VPN client for Mac and Windows which supports
    Microsoft's PPTP VPN system (amongst others). It's compatible with WinNT's
    RRAS VPN system and presumably with Win2K Server's although Win2K's may
    have additional configurations (IPSec) which are not compatible with
    TunnelBuilder. The advantage of using a PPTP-based VPN system is the client
    software is freely available for Windows (bundled with Win98, 2K,
    downloadable in DUN 1.3). The disadvantage is PPTP has had holes poked in
    its security in the past so it's reliability is in question, at least
    relative to other VPN systems.

    http://www.nts.com/products/vpntnnlbldr.html

    There are other options but depends upon what you're trying to do. 

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Curtis Wilcox          cwcx@ats.rochester.edu
ATS Desktop Systems Consultant   716/274-1160
Eastman School of Music       Pager: x12-3290

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