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 -------------- john4293 at umn dot edu -------------- * if it's not broken, i haven't worked hard enough. * there is little truth in men but much cunning. -peter the great _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list