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	Either IPSec NAT-T or OpenVPN should work just fine for the above two
points.  IPSec NAT-T is supported by Windows XP (and you wouldn't need
an add on VPN client) and should be available for Windows 2K.  OpenVPN
has support for Windows versions.

> 3) Must be simple to setup for a non Linux guru.

	IPSec is part of XP and integrated in rather nicely into that paradigm.
Windows people should have no problem setting it up since it's a Windows
thingy.  Openswan, Strongswan, can support Windows VPN clients under
IPSec NAT-T.  But it is NOT a simple setup for a non Linux guru.  (Was
that meant to mean that you are a "non-Linux" guru, like a Windows guru,
or that you are a non "Linux guru", just not a guru for Linux?  Big
difference there!)  I can't really judge on the ease of setting up
OpenVPN on Windows.  I've recently been looking at the OpenVPN 2.0
release candidates and there is a vast improvement in 2.0, which
includes a multiclient server mode, over the 1.6 version which is purely
peer-to-peer and (IMHO) doesn't scale well where you have lots of
systems in a mesh (1.x you had to allocate UDP ports by hand and manage
who was using what port with multiple clients on each system).

> 4) Ideally, a drop in Live CD would probably be a good thing :)

	I would check out www.distrowatch.org and see what they list for the
various bootable distributions.  Several come with VPN's including
OpenVPN and IPSec.

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