[Wylug-announce] ManLUG meetings for August 2003 and September 2003

[Dr A V Le Blanc]

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ManLUG meetings for August 2003 and September 2003

August 16 2003, 14:00, in the usual place, the Lascelles Williams
room on the ground floor of the Kilburn Building at the University
of Manchester.  (For more information, see our web site:
http://www.manlug.man.ac.uk, under 'How to find us'.)  Reminder:
Please bring a 'photo ID' to show the porters if you are asked.

     Poptop -- Point-to-point Tunneling
     Robert Morris

One popular application of VPNs (Virtual Private Networking) is to allow
staff working from home, client sites, or other remote locations to
connect in to the office network over the Internet using an encrypted
tunnel. PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) is Microsoft's protocol
for this purpose, and Poptop implements it under Linux. Installing
Poptop makes your Linux box appear to the outside world just like a
Microsoft ISA Server, and because PPTP is, of course, natively supported
under Windows, this is currently by far the most effective way of providing
VPN access to remote Windows users.

The talk will consist of a brief introduction to Poptop, a walk-through
of a Poptop installation and live demo, followed (hopefully!) by a
discussion of the issues raised by Poptop, and VPNs more generally.

There's no second talk that I know of, but one of the usual
suspects may volunteer one before Saturday, perhaps.


September 20 2003, 14:00, usual place.

No definite talks for September.  Yet!

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc at mcc.ac.uk


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