If you feel comfortable with patching the RHEL's kernel, you can configure IPSec in so called "opportunistic mode" with pre-shared keys when you do not establish an actual tunnel, but force encryption of the traffic between the two boxes. If you were running 2.6 kernel, that would probably be the best choice.
As mentioned before, SSH is an option and does not require SFU or fully blown sygwin on the W2K3 side - you can install the OpenSSH with minimal set of sygwin http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/ (I'm not a big fan of installing on a server more than is actually needed) Another approach could be tunneling the MMS traffic through reverse proxy on RHEL to the W2K3 MMS server: - External client request MMS stream from RHEL (on port other than 80) - RHEL reverse proxies the request through SSH/VPN/IPSec/PPTP/whatever tunnel to IIS on W2K3 (which would only talk to RHEL and not give anything out to other clients). This way IIS is not fully exposed to the world and from the client point of view the data is coming from RHEL. Guy > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Hetz Ben Hamo > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 11:09 AM > To: Linux-IL > Subject: connectivity question > > Here's a scenario I have: > > On one side of the globe, I have a Linux server (RHEL 3) in a hosting > firm. > On the other side of the globe - I have a Windows 2003 server which is > hosted also. > > What I'm trying to do - is to make a permanent connection between the > 2 servers. > > I can go ahead and use Samba, but samba is not an efficient > connection, both in the terms of bandwidth (after all, I need to pay > for the bandwidth), and in terms of connectivity (what if one of the > servers goes down? I've seen Linux machines were definately affected > from "misconnection" and until the mounting were removed, the machine > would have crawled.. > > Is there another connectivity protocol which is: > > 1. Does not need to send massive amount of data if I want just to > browse directories, upload/download/sync > 2. Can reconnect when there's a downtime and up again > 3. Efficient > 4. Supported (either as an open source solution or commercially) on both > OS's. > > Any recommendations would be welcome. > > Thanks,. > Hetz > > ====================== > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
