> On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Hilton Travis wrote:
>
> > PPTP is well known to be not the most security-conscious VPN protocol.

After the feedback I had received so far I am no longer considering PPTP.

> even start considering it secure - and that includes
> upper/lower/non-alpha characters.  Thi$ISN0tA$3cur3P4$$w0rd in case you

 Even though I am not going with PPTP, what would be a secure password
 then?

> IPSEC on m0n0wall is fairly straightforward.

Any pointers/URLs I could read?

> Windows boxen, then yes, you will need 3rd party cliens as Microsoft
> surprisingly crippled and mangled their IPSEC client on W2K/WXP to not
> work with FreeS/WAN compliant IPSEC servers properly.  Netgear produces
> a cheap IPSEC client, but I've not played with it.

Do you know of any IPsec clients you would recommend then? Any you have
worked with?