[olug] VNC w/Qwest

[Rob Townley]

On 10/15/07, Christopher Cashell <topher-olug at zyp.org> wrote:
>
> On 10/15/07, Jason Troy <jason.troy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've attempted to use OpenVPN a couple of years ago - not a great
> > experience. (is it better now?)
>
> Without knowing what problems you ran into, I can't say.  I've been
> using it for some years now, and I've always had great luck with it.
> Rock solid, excellent security model, very easy to use, and fully open
> source.  I rank it right up with IPSec as one of the two best VPN
> choices available today.
>
> > Hamachi - which was bought / maintained by logmein works great and
> breaks
> > right through NATed spaces.
> > https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp
>
> I've heard and read about Hamachi a good bit, but the fact that
> OpenVPN has worked so well for me, and is fully open source, has left
> me no reason to bother with Hamachi.  The fact that, especially
> earlier on, the guy behind Hamachi was rather closed about the details
> of the protocol and underlying security turned me off, too (he's since
> released more details and I've heard it's fairly reasonable now).
>
> > Oh - and it works of course w/Linux and has a free version.
>
> OpenVPN is fully cross-platform as well.
>
> > - JT
>
> --
> Christopher
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The release candidates of dd-wrt include Ethernet Over IP or EOIP.  This
appears much like Hamachi but so far without automatic encryption.  Of
course dd-wrt includes OpenVPN and pptp.