[YLUG] java.io.IOException

[Roger Leigh]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:28:51PM +0100, mike cloaked wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Arthur Clune<arthur at clune.org> wrote:
> >
> > Openvpn isn't relevant here - you're using the University's VPN server
> > and need to use it's client.
> 
> True though just to add a comment - to make a VPN connection IPSec is
> not going to work  - you need pptp if you want to set up a standard
> vpn in this case.

This is the approach I took, using pptp-linux.

Like with SSH, I do however have the problem that it will keep
regularly freezing up on me, I wonder for the same reasons?
Maybe PPTP needs to be configured to send (more) LCP echo requests
to keep the connection open?


Regards,
Roger

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