The answers to both of these were in my previous followup, but perhaps
somewhat obliquely. So I'll answer directly.

On 2005-11-16, Proteus <proteus@uselessemail.net> wrote:
> 1. When would I/anybody want to use VPN-- for my home network? just for
> wifi at a cafe? just for business (enterprise) network?

Home/cafe: to make it more difficult for crackers to sniff your wireless data
Business: to set up a secure connection between your work and wherever
you are (say hotel room or conference), to make it difficult for the
people who control the intervening networks to sniff your data

> 2. How would I go about setting up a VPN, anybody care to throw me a bone
> to an easy to follow document on how to set up a VPN?

Look at the quick start on the OpenVPN site, www.openvpn.net.

--keith

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