VPN Server setup for roaming windows clients?

Sagar Srivastava
Mon, 07 Jan 2002 14:23:50 -0000

Dear Friends,

I am a newbie to IPTABLES and I have got a problem.

I implemented a VPN on PPTP for my LAN (IP=192.168.7.5/255.255.255.0) on one of
my Windows2000 Advanced server having permanent connetion to  internet
(IP=a.b.c.d/255.255.255.240)and to my LAN,  successfully. All of my roaming
clients (win98, win2000,winNT)  at remote locations are able to connect to my
VPN server when they connect to their local ISP and can access each and every
TCP/IP service  running internally on my Private IP machines (192.168.7.*) once
they are authenticated.


I wanted similar implementation of VPN preferably using IPTABLES setup on
RH7.2.(eth0-192.168.7.254/255.255.255.0, eth1-a.b.c.d/255.255.255.240) so that I
can have same Windows clients accessing my LAN of private IPs using a LINUX VPN
server maybe on ipsec/PPTP, or whatever windows operating systems also support.
I know the performance is going to be great in LINUX.

Can anyone tell me about a good solution in LINUX OR the exact steps and IPTABLE
commands OR links to documents, trying to achieve something similar?



Thanks,
Sagar
Network Administrator
CWL, Bangalore
sagaratcwlglobal.com