{"id":75,"date":"2003-03-25T16:31:06","date_gmt":"2003-03-25T21:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2003-03-25T16:31:06","modified_gmt":"2003-03-25T21:31:06","slug":"poptop-pptp-and-the-vpn-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/25\/poptop-pptp-and-the-vpn-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"poptop, pptp and the VPN issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

VPNs are just plain annoying<\/p>\n

IPsec isn’t remotely easy enough to configure yet (i.e. it’s not easy point and click or at least point and type).<\/p>\n

PPTP is butchery and icky and all wrong and not really *that* secure, but, MS OSs have support for it, and there’s a suppossedly working implementation that’s free. Unfortunately, i can *never* get the bloody encryption to work.<\/p>\n

Freaky kernel hacks, modules that should exist but don’t (and don’t build)… grr….<\/p>\n

All I want is a working VPN solution that runs on a free OS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VPNs are just plain annoying IPsec isn’t remotely easy enough to configure yet (i.e. it’s not easy point and click or at least point and type). PPTP is butchery and icky and all wrong and not really *that* secure, but, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-et-al"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-1d","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1225,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/13\/new-networkmanager-vpnc-not-better-at-all-in-fact-much-worse\/","url_meta":{"origin":75,"position":0},"title":"new NetworkManager VPNC not better at all (in fact, much worse)","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2008-10-13","format":false,"excerpt":"I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 the other day, NetworkManager promptly forgot my wireless LAN key (grr... lucky I keep a copy in a text file) as well as my VPN configuration. It's also changed the UI for entering what specific networks to route over the VPN ('cause the last thing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1083,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/24\/twitter-updates-for-2008-04-24\/","url_meta":{"origin":75,"position":1},"title":"Twitter Updates for 2008-04-24","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2008-04-24","format":false,"excerpt":"managed to log onto the Sun internal web stuff... now to get VPN going... but the token card works. YAY! # woot - twitter authenticated on the jabber server that works! # trying to find out how to get a sunray for home... # woohoo! no mandatory Java brainwashing course!\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Twitter"","block_context":{"text":"Twitter","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/from-twitter\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1087,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/28\/twitter-updates-for-2008-04-28\/","url_meta":{"origin":75,"position":2},"title":"Twitter Updates for 2008-04-28","author":"","date":"2008-04-28","format":false,"excerpt":"in Sun Melbourne office. # some meeting rooms have couches not chairs # @brianaker: tempting. very, very tempting. # @pjf: i had that issue... i think it's jabber.org that hates me. # FUCKERS put in another speed bump on Patterson Rd. NOT HAPPY # talk to write by wednesday... argh...\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Twitter"","block_context":{"text":"Twitter","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/from-twitter\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":926,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/27\/ndbinfo\/","url_meta":{"origin":75,"position":3},"title":"NDB$INFO","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2008-05-27","format":false,"excerpt":"There's been talk over the years of better monitoring for NDB (MySQL Cluster). This has been dubiously named NDB$INFO, after some special magical naming convention for tables holding information on the insides of NDB. Otherwise known as Worklog 3363 (viewable on MySQL Forge). The basic idea is to get a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "mysql"","block_context":{"text":"mysql","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/work-et-al\/mysql\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1874,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/storing-the-table-message-in-embedded-innodb\/","url_meta":{"origin":75,"position":4},"title":"Storing the table message in Embedded InnoDB","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2010-03-30","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the exciting things[1] about working on a storage engine in Drizzle is that you get to manage your own metadata. When the database engine you're writing the storage engine interface for has a pretty complete data dictionary (e.g. Embedded InnoDB) you could just directly use it. At some\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "drizzle"","block_context":{"text":"drizzle","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/work-et-al\/drizzle-work-et-al\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":103,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/12\/new-stews-kernel\/","url_meta":{"origin":75,"position":5},"title":"new “stew’s kernel”","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2003-06-12","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/linux\/kernel\/debs\/ Debs for 2.4.21-rc7-ac1-stew1 are up. Basically a bit of a test release this - trying to see how pany people actually like compete, nice, remotely optimized builds of the kernel in an easy to swallow .deb package. That and I want an easy package for myself to carry around\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "linux-kernel"","block_context":{"text":"linux-kernel","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/linux-kernel\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}