On 2014-06-10, 6:12 PM, Mike Josh wrote: > > OpenVPN is not a peer-to-peer VPN solution (by design).
Of course you can. You can do this most easily indeed with client to client. Or if tighter control is required even without client to client. What Jan is saying is that it is not a true Peer to Peer (i.e. direct client to client with no middleman) but a hub and spoke product, which of course can be made to allow spoke's to talk to each other. For what you want use client to client as you discussed, have each user connect and they will be able to connect to each other via the IP assigned to their TAP adapter. As with anything in technology loose use of terms causes confusion. Peer to Peer in a purest sense implies a very different topology and technology implication and Hub and Spoke with Hub's talking to each other Hope this helps. C > This means that I cannot tell Alice's client to communicate directly > with Bob's? > > I'm not saying that each instance of OpenVPN should be both, a client > and a server. I'm talking about a central server that authorises clients > and then allows them to communicate with each other directly. > > > if security is the top priority then a central server model through > which all traffic flows does offer the best security > > I want to understand why. Can you point me to a resource? Something > easy, I'm a beginner in this stuff. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions > Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems > Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. > Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration > http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems > _______________________________________________ > Openvpn-users mailing list > Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
