PPTP over SSH or SSL?

[nick.pend]

I am interested in a point-to-point VPN, using two Windows XP
computers. However, I would like stronger encryption than PPTP
provides.

Is it possible to tunnel PPTP over SSH or SSL? (Perhaps over Stunnel
http://www.stunnel.org/)
Can any kind of network traffic go over PPTP? Both UDP and TCP?
If so, will I experience significant problems from having TCP embedded
in TCP? (http://sites.inka.de/~W1011/devel/tcp-tcp.html)

The closest I've seen describing this is PPP over SSL, at the Stunnel
site: http://www.stunnel.org/examples/pppvpn.html.

Thanks!

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

I am interested in a point-to-point VPN, using two Windows XP
computers. However, I would like stronger encryption than PPTP
provides.

Is it possible to tunnel PPTP over SSH or SSL? (Perhaps over Stunnel
http://www.stunnel.org/)
Can any kind of network traffic go over PPTP? Both UDP and TCP?
If so, will I experience significant problems from having TCP embedded
in TCP? (http://sites.inka.de/~W1011/devel/tcp-tcp.html)

The closest I've seen describing this is PPP over SSL, at the Stunnel
site: http://www.stunnel.org/examples/pppvpn.html.

Thanks!

I suggest looking at OpenVPN as an alternative. It works well and you can
use a cert/key protected by a strong password for authentication. I used to
run an OpenVPN server on my home XP Pro desktop and the OpenVPN GUI client
on an XP Pro laptop...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/OpenVPN/OpenVPN.html

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[nick.pend]

I suggest looking at OpenVPN as an alternative. It works well and you can
use a cert/key protected by a strong password for authentication. I used to
run an OpenVPN server on my home XP Pro desktop and the OpenVPN GUI client
on an XP Pro laptop...

I am considering that but am wanting to explore and understand my
other options. Is any kind of VPN over ssh or ssl going to do the
trick for this?

 

[nick.pend]

I suggest looking at OpenVPN as an alternative. It works well and you can
use a cert/key protected by a strong password for authentication. I used to
run an OpenVPN server on my home XP Pro desktop and the OpenVPN GUI client
on an XP Pro laptop...

Al,

I am considering that but am wanting to explore and understand my
other options. Is any kind of
VPN over ssh or ssl going to do the trick for this?
Thanks,
nick