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PPTP Vs. TUN/TAP
One more which one is better question: is PPTP better or OpenVPN with TUN/TAP better for VPN purposes? Actually, forgive me for being lazy, but may I ask what's the differences between the two?
At home I am running on Windows 7 machines and obviously the VPN server is running on Linux, primary purposes is Hulu 
Thanks!
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I went with OpenVPN regardless (TUN/TAP) but I used this to basically help me decide:
http://www.ivpn.net/knowledgebase/62/PPTP-vs-L2TP-vs-OpenVPN.html
Also, OpenVPN makes it 10x easier to set it up.
Well, i find PPTPD better
Dunno why, but i just like it and it's easy
@HalfEatenPie Thanks for sharing the link, OpenVPN seems to be the best choice here!
As I was doing a research previously for a present project (VPN services), appears that OpenVPN is prefered over PPTP by most of the users. However, I personally prefer PPTP, if used on Windows machine.
I think openvpn over tcp is probably the best.
PPTP needs two ports. One for initialization and the other for data exchange. OpenVPN can be run on any single port.
OpenVPN is able to pass through firewalls more easily as it can be routed to pretty much any port. Whereas PPTP can only uses the default ports, which can be easily blocked.
My vote goes to OpenVPN here.