Jan 30 2003
WinXP & frees/wan VPN
Using FreeS/WAN with Windows IPSEC/L2TP
I’m setting up VPN access on my wireless access point, and it’s been killing me. The access point is running Redhat 8. It works fine as a router between the wireless subnet and the wired subnet, but it’s insecure. I’ve started to see other access points popping up in my neighborhood, so I figured this was a good time to start tightening things up.
I decided to install the frees/wan VPN packages on the router. The router has two clients, both WinXP. The router is all set, frees/wan is working as far as I can tell. I’m struggling with the XP clients. XP has a built in VPN client, but I’m not sure what all I need to do to it.
After a lot of Googling, I finally found the link above. Jacco de Leeuw has written a really great howto, explaining exactly what I need explained.
