There are unfortunately no Open Source Windows VPN clients. A good alternative however is SafeNet's client. Though not open source, you can get a pack of 10 licenses for about $80, last I checked. Cisco rebrands and sells this very product but charges about 10 times as much for it. SafeNet's VPN client works with FreeS/WAN which can be loaded on Windows 95/98/NT and possibly 2k. DO NOT use Windows 2000's built in IPSec, is has a major bug in that when told to operate in 3DES mode is suddenly drops to single DES without so much as telling you. When inter-operating with FreeS/WAN the connection barfs, I consider this a great feature of FreeS/WAN:-). FreeS/WAN no longer supports single DES as it is too easily brute force cracked. If there is enough interest in this sort of thing, I could see the company I work for producing an Open Source windows VPN client. www.protectix.com
No hoax. I have seen it in the flesh... err, silicon. When I saw it was running a version of Windoze and was moving faster than I thought possible for a 486 SX. The guys behind Tiqit are quite pro-Linux however.
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There are unfortunately no Open Source Windows VPN clients. A good alternative however is SafeNet's client. Though not open source, you can get a pack of 10 licenses for about $80, last I checked. Cisco rebrands and sells this very product but charges about 10 times as much for it. SafeNet's VPN client works with FreeS/WAN which can be loaded on Windows 95/98/NT and possibly 2k. DO NOT use Windows 2000's built in IPSec, is has a major bug in that when told to operate in 3DES mode is suddenly drops to single DES without so much as telling you. When inter-operating with FreeS/WAN the connection barfs, I consider this a great feature of FreeS/WAN :-). FreeS/WAN no longer supports single DES as it is too easily brute force cracked. If there is enough interest in this sort of thing, I could see the company I work for producing an Open Source windows VPN client. www.protectix.com
No hoax. I have seen it in the flesh... err, silicon. When I saw it was running a version of Windoze and was moving faster than I thought possible for a 486 SX. The guys behind Tiqit are quite pro-Linux however.