Is there a free VPN package for windows?

[sumthinelse]

I can use SSH and PPTP (both free) for linux but I have to "punch a hole in my firewall" to use SSH, because I use 192.168.1.xxx subnet.

 

[Sanaz]

Depends on your application. Win2K and later ships with an IPSec client (but it's a bit goofy to configure), and PPTP ships with all recent Microsoft OSes (but it's not very secure). Are you just looking for secure remote access to a server?

 

[sumthinelse]

Thanks!

I see IPSEC, both client and server, in advanced TCPIP settings. Not sure how to specify 128 bit encryption, but I assume that since I already use it for SSL in internet exploder it will also use 128 bit encryption fot IPSEC.

I am just trying to set up a VPN with a colleague. I don't case who is the server and who is the client, we both have win2000.

 

[sumthinelse]

I started the IPSEC server on WIN2000, but I don't think it gives you any warnings about whether you have anything set up correctly. It's supposed to work with both IPSEC-enabled and non-IPSEC enabled machines but I don't think I understand this yet. I'm not even sure if my ISP DNS servers can pass it through without getting confused. My machine sent out an ISAKMP packet and the router didn't respond. So I turned it off again.

Have you ever set up a VPN using the win2000 built-in IPSEC utilities?

 

[Sanaz]

Originally posted by sumthinelse
I started the IPSEC server on WIN2000, but I don't think it gives you any warnings about whether you have anything set up correctly. It's supposed to work with both IPSEC-enabled and non-IPSEC enabled machines but I don't think I understand this yet. I'm not even sure if my ISP DNS servers can pass it through without getting confused. My machine sent out an ISAKMP packet and the router didn't respond. So I turned it off again.

Have you ever set up a VPN using the win2000 built-in IPSEC utilities?

Yeah, but never to a Win2K server. I found this link which *may* be helpful :

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/evaluation/news/bulletins/l2tpclient.asp

Of note :

"Just as in creating a PPTP-based VPN connection, provide the IP address or name of the VPN server rather than a telephone number for this connection."

Also note that the new NAT traversal RFC draft is planned for implementation in Windows.NET, and is not in 2K or XP.

The closest I came to finding a Windows VPN server configuration guide is :

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...1&qry=Q240262&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=CHS&

Hopefully someone else has configured the VPN server end.

 

[sumthinelse]

All I want is a way to send secure data back and forth data between 2 machines. I thought about setting up an Apache server on one end, but I can't find anything in its documentation about sending data back and forth. Maybe the idea is that you set up a secure SSL session in HTML and then use FTP to send data in that same session - but then I would be poking a hole in the firewall on the server end if I enable incoming FTP.

 

[Sanaz]

Originally posted by sumthinelse
All I want is a way to send secure data back and forth data between 2 machines. I thought about setting up an Apache server on one end, but I can't find anything in its documentation about sending data back and forth. Maybe the idea is that you set up a secure SSL session in HTML and then use FTP to send data in that same session - but then I would be poking a hole in the firewall on the server end if I enable incoming FTP.

You can use Secure FTP on Linux. I just checked out this site, and it may have your simplest answer :

http://www.openssh.com/

This page is BSD specific, but here's the port page :

http://www.openssh.com/portable.html

"DESCRIPTION
sftp is an interactive file transfer program, similar to ftp(1), which performs all operations over an encrypted ssh(1) transport. It may also use many features of ssh, such as public key authentication and compression. sftp connects and logs into the specified host, then enters an interactive command mode."

This will require opening the sftp port on the firewall :

ftps-data 989/tcp ftp protocol, data, over TLS/SSL
ftps-data 989/udp ftp protocol, data, over TLS/SSL
ftps 990/tcp ftp protocol, control, over TLS/SSL
ftps 990/udp ftp protocol, control, over TLS/SSL

Depending on your Linux install, it may just require starting the daemon, or it may require a new package install. I am not sure which Windows FTP clients support sftp, the one I use just has a button to click.

 

[sumthinelse]

Thanks. None of these downloads is a win32 sftp server, right?

 

[GenghisK]

There's Wingate VPN that's great too...