Re: [CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-12-10 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 10, 2010, at 8:48 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 12/10/10 2:42 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: >> On 09/12/10 17:29, Steve Clark wrote: >>> On 12/09/2010 10:30 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 25/11/10 14:12, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: >> [...snip...] > Furthermore, openvpn is only

Re: [CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-12-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/10/10 2:42 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 09/12/10 17:29, Steve Clark wrote: >> On 12/09/2010 10:30 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: >>> On 25/11/10 14:12, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: > [...snip...] >>> Furthermore, openvpn is only compatible with openvpn, while using ipsec you might

Re: [CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-12-10 Thread David Sommerseth
On 09/12/10 17:29, Steve Clark wrote: > On 12/09/2010 10:30 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: >> On 25/11/10 14:12, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: [...snip...] >> >>> Furthermore, openvpn is only compatible with openvpn, while using ipsec you >>> might be able to connect to other boxes. >>> >> That

Re: [CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-12-09 Thread Steve Clark
On 12/09/2010 10:30 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 25/11/10 14:12, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: [...snip...] Will you be confronted with IPv6 in the (not so) near future? Forget OpenVPN, it is still beta there, while it has been implemented in strongswan for ages, and part of there standard t

Re: [CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-12-09 Thread David Sommerseth
On 30/11/10 15:49, Ben McGinnes wrote: >> > That is there must be a specific IP address assigned to a user/password >> > combination. pptp does not really do this but I wrote sort of a backend >> > (or maybe frontend? ;-) ) to change the IP address assigned based on a >> > login and password. It is

Re: [CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-12-09 Thread m . roth
David Sommerseth wrote: > "That's the wonderful thing about standards, > everyone can have their own" > - unknown Actually, that's "The nice thing about standards is that there are so *many* of them". mark

Re: [CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-12-09 Thread David Sommerseth
On 25/11/10 14:12, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: [...snip...] > Will you be confronted with IPv6 in the (not so) near future? Forget > OpenVPN, it is still beta there, while it has been implemented in > strongswan for ages, and part of there standard test plan. Okay, I'll admit up-front I'm biased,

Re: [CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-11-30 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 25/11/10 4:07 AM, tony.chamberl...@lemko.com wrote: > > > I am looking for the optimal VPN. Well it doens't have to be that elaborate. > Just the best VPN. We currently have some customers using PPTP, some using > openvpn, some using Cisco Any Connect and there are a few others. Be careful wi

Re: [CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-11-25 Thread J.Witvliet
-Original Message- > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > My sense is that openvpn is the easiest to configure, the most robust and fault tolerant, as far as keeping connections u

Re: [CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-11-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
> Based on other discussussions on the list my recollection is that IPSEC > provides better performance if you need GigE or better data rates on > your VPNs.  My sense is that IPSEC may be more difficult to configure > and less robust at keeping connections up, but this has probably > improved in r

Re: [CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-11-24 Thread Nataraj
tony.chamberl...@lemko.com wrote: > I am looking for the optimal VPN. Well it doens't have to be that elaborate. > Just the best VPN. We currently have some customers using PPTP, some using > openvpn, some using Cisco Any Connect and there are a few others. > > So my question is, if you have contro

Re: [CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-11-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/11/24 Nico Kadel-Garcia : > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, John Hodrien > wrote: >> On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Bill Campbell wrote: >> >>> We use OpenVPN for most things, and pptp (poptop) for connections >>> where the OpenVPN client's aren't available (e.g. iPad, iPhone, >>> iPod Touch). >> >>

Re: [CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-11-24 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Bill Campbell wrote: > >> We use OpenVPN for most things, and pptp (poptop) for connections >> where the OpenVPN client's aren't available (e.g. iPad, iPhone, >> iPod Touch). > > Is there anything to make you choose pptp

Re: [CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-11-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010, John Hodrien wrote: >On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Bill Campbell wrote: > >> We use OpenVPN for most things, and pptp (poptop) for connections >> where the OpenVPN client's aren't available (e.g. iPad, iPhone, >> iPod Touch). > >Is there anything to make you choose pptp over IPSec? Th

Re: [CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-11-24 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Bill Campbell wrote: > We use OpenVPN for most things, and pptp (poptop) for connections > where the OpenVPN client's aren't available (e.g. iPad, iPhone, > iPod Touch). Is there anything to make you choose pptp over IPSec? There are a number of issues with PPTP that'd make

Re: [CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-11-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010, n...@li.nux.ro wrote: >tony.chamberl...@lemko.com writes: >> >> I am looking for the optimal VPN. Well it doens't have to be that elaborate. >> Just the best VPN. We currently have some customers using PPTP, some using >> openvpn, some using Cisco Any Connect and there are a

Re: [CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-11-24 Thread nux
tony.chamberl...@lemko.com writes: > > > I am looking for the optimal VPN. Well it doens't have to be that elaborate. > Just the best VPN. We currently have some customers using PPTP, some using > openvpn, some using Cisco Any Connect and there are a few others. > > So my question is, if you ha

[CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-11-24 Thread tony . chamberlain
I am looking for the optimal VPN. Well it doens't have to be that elaborate. Just the best VPN. We currently have some customers using PPTP, some using openvpn, some using Cisco Any Connect and there are a few others. So my question is, if you have control of both ends (client and server) what i