Well...I'm attempting to set up VPN so that I can connect to my home network (primarily home computer) via VPN while at a WiFi hotspot or at school.
I've been tinkering and reading every howto, article, etc. that I can find about VPN. Throughout this process I've read about the "weaknesses" which PPTP might have and therefore I've decided I really want to get IPsec working.
Firstly, it seems I can connect fine when I use PPTP, and that was easy enough to set up. I have a Windows 2003 Server box downstairs which I use as a experimental system which I test things on: thus far this computer has been responsible for accepting the VPN connections.
However, I can't find a *really* good article to teach me how to create a VPN "host" for IPsec/L2TP connections. Considering this is a fairly private network and the data on it is sensitive enough for me to want to go through all this trouble, PPTP probably isn't going to cut it.
I can't figure out how to use the certificates and the other steps necessary to create and complete a IPsec/L2TP connection.
One last thing is that after all my testing is done, I'd like to have my *WINDOWS XP* box accepting the VPN connections: but again, I'd like to use IPsec/L2TP instead of PPTP, and I can't figure out how to do that using Windows XP...
Can anybody help me with this, or is there any great article on the web that walks someone through creating this type of scenario?
Thanks so much in advance!
I've been tinkering and reading every howto, article, etc. that I can find about VPN. Throughout this process I've read about the "weaknesses" which PPTP might have and therefore I've decided I really want to get IPsec working.
Firstly, it seems I can connect fine when I use PPTP, and that was easy enough to set up. I have a Windows 2003 Server box downstairs which I use as a experimental system which I test things on: thus far this computer has been responsible for accepting the VPN connections.
However, I can't find a *really* good article to teach me how to create a VPN "host" for IPsec/L2TP connections. Considering this is a fairly private network and the data on it is sensitive enough for me to want to go through all this trouble, PPTP probably isn't going to cut it.
I can't figure out how to use the certificates and the other steps necessary to create and complete a IPsec/L2TP connection.
One last thing is that after all my testing is done, I'd like to have my *WINDOWS XP* box accepting the VPN connections: but again, I'd like to use IPsec/L2TP instead of PPTP, and I can't figure out how to do that using Windows XP...
Can anybody help me with this, or is there any great article on the web that walks someone through creating this type of scenario?
Thanks so much in advance!
