Secure the insecurable

Rémy Sanchez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.poptop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 Hi,

 I do administrate a dorm's network, with ~150 users, a low budget and 
 L2 switchs. It goes without saying that we are way to much exposed to 
 MITM attacks...

 Then the idea to secure the thing a bit more would be to put every user 
 in a VPN. Since anything with more that 3 clicks to go would require a 
 huge amount of time spent in user support, PPTP seems to be a good 
 choice. At least it would fake being secure and avoid script kiddies...

 Now the question is : can we easily plug pptpd on our mysql user base ? 
 (the passwords are BSD MD5). Each user has to register himself on a 
 website at their first connection, and then to register each of its 
 devices MAC address. The IP address is organized to have a subnet for 
 each user.

 Bonus question : we'll be moving to IPv6 very soon, will pptpd handle 
 it ? What if the user wants to use his own router ? (to get wifi for 
 example, and remember there is no NAT in IPv6...)

 Thanks :)
-- 
 Rémy Sanchez


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