How to configure a Mandrake server for wlan with vpn over ipsec

Hello,

I'm a linux newbie and need some help. I have to configure a mandrake
10.1 server as a wlan router so that some Windows boxes can connect
via usb wlan adapter. The wlan connection can be established so that
the boxes can go online. Because of security reasons I tried to
encrypt the connection by using pptp. Doesn't work - more than one
connection could not be established. Then I tried IpSec - doesn't work
either. In both cases I got compile errors when I was installing some
additional packages (e.g. in case of ipsec I tried to set up ipsec
with the KAME tools and followed the instructions at
http://www.ipsec-howto.org/t1.html. I got a compile error when I
called MAKE for the ipsec-tools package - yacc error . Installing
the bison package didn't have any effect.)

After hours I'm really confused - is it really so difficult to set up
pptp or ipsec with mandrake???? Can anyone help me or does anyone have
some instructions how to install a secure vpn connection?

Thanks in advance,
Uli

In comp.os.linux.networking Ulrich Frank <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> Hello,

> I'm a linux newbie and need some help. I have to configure a mandrake
> 10.1 server as a wlan router so that some Windows boxes can connect
> via usb wlan adapter. The wlan connection can be established so that
> the boxes can go online. Because of security reasons I tried to

WLAN offers some kind of encryption you can use, if you are
curious, you can in addition use some doze ssh client and forward
web/other traffic of your shitty M$ boxes to your proxy/server.

Dunno more about it, don't use M$, but it works for others more
or less in the same way as you can forward with a standard
openssh client from some xterm and configure "localhost:<port>"
as proxy in some browser. If done probably (ssh2 + key
authentication) it should offer a tight security.

Good luck

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