On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 08:50:06 -0600
"John T. Hoffoss" <hoff0438 at umn.edu> wrote:

> Check out OpenVPN, (http://openvpn.sourceforge.net) it includes
> instructions on connecting to Windows and Linux/BSD/Solaris/Mac, and is
> apparently straight-forward to set up.

thanks for the hint, i downloaded the code for this and got things set up this afternoon. it was very easy to get a basic setup working and it works fine using linux or windows as a client, although the windows client seems to be a bit picky. the throughput is acceptable on a wired segment, my celeron 466 gateway was saturated at ~1.9MBps on a 100mbps link. the wireless seemed to top out at ~420KBps with neither client or server showing a significant cpu load. i was hoping for a couple hundred KB more from the wireless so it's something I can play with but what i'm getting now is fine for surfing over dial-up and running some ssh sessions. i would definately recommend it for anyone looking for a VPN.


Thomas Johnson
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