What I've done to get around the VPN / PPTP thing is to allow ssh to a DMZ box and all users use ssh portforwarding to access the internal LAN.  Works like a charm.

* Rob Gridley (rob@mhzdesign.com) wrote:
> I donšt really know if I should call this a VPN, but this is what I want to
> do. I have a number of users that want to be able to access the internal
> network at my office from their homes. I want to use the internet to do
> this.
> 
> I've done a lot of reading about IPSec in NetBSD and FreeBSD and come up
> blank. It seems to be very easy to connect two remote networks together or
> to connect two hosts together, but having a single computer with VPN Client
> software access an internal network seems to be impossible.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas about how to do this?
> 
> 
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