Hi Falcor,

There's a **huge** difference between PPTP and IPSEC as far as security goes
with VPNs.

Personally, I'd place PPTP in the same league as WEP - untrustworthy.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Falcor [mailto:falcor at netassassin dot com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 June 2004 12:36
> To: James Baber
> Cc: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
> Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Newbie ? - IPSec via Wireless (like SonicWall)
> 
> yes it is possible and quite easy to do.  see the pptp 
> document at http://m0n0.ch/wall/docbook/pptp.html
> 
> James Baber wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >I want to configure my W2K/XP laptop to use a VPN tunnel 
> >(IPSec) to my m0n0wall (with Soekris VPN1401 & NetGate 
> >802.11B Prism 2.5) specifically over the wireless network.  
> >Actually I would like to configure all my wireless 
> >devices to do this.
> >
> >Is this possible?  If so, can someone point me to an 
> >archived document with instructions?  I can't seem to 
> >find exactly what I'm looking for, nor can I seem to 
> >get it to work.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >James