RE: pptp

I was just going to mention that. OpenVPN has the virtue of being

able to

connect to a variety of server-end implementations, including Cisco's.

Do you have a reference for this? None of the literature I've read on the subject make any claims for this sort of interoperability. For this to be the case either OpenVPN would need to talk IPSEC to Cisco endpoints, or Cisco endpoints would need to understand OpenVPN. You didn't mean openswan or freeswan did you? I seem to remember that they can be configured to talk to Cisco endpoints... James