Linux client for Windows VPN

[FlyingAce]

I'd like to connect to a Windows(NT) VPN server using Fedora Core-3. The VPN server is not a Cisco box, but the standard VPN running on a Windows server. The IP address of the VPN server is dynamic - it can change every time I access it, so I need something that will use the domain name exclusively. My platform is i386 based (AMD cpu).

I have tried to use the howtos without much success. They seem to go off on tangent after tangent of dependencies and pre-requisites.

Is there someone out there who has done what I need to do? If so, could you deliniate the needed steps in a way that a newbie can understand them?

Thanks in advance.

 

[MYOB]

Depends what your VPN does - I'm on a VPN that runs on Windows, officially; but I can use anything. Web is provided by MS-ISA, mail by Exchange, etc - all have seperate clients under Linux, but all work.

 

[FlyingAce]

But you need to tunnel thru the VPN to get to use all those things, right? That's the part I'm trying to do. I can access the VPN thru Win2K, but I want to use Linux.

 

[MYOB]

Err, no. My router does the tunnelling for me.

That said, it is an extremely expensive Cisco.

 

[FlyingAce]

It would be great if the VPN were router based - life is much simpler when the hardware handles things. As it is, I need to mimic the Windows VPN interface.