Hi Charles,
You raise good points below. The web services client wouldn't be
controlling the connection in the way that you envision. It would be
more of a message passing service (explaining why a connection failed,
rather than just showing up in the grid as some unexplained connection
failu
Thanks for the response, Charles,
I have added comments in-line:
Charles Duffy wrote:
I'm not an OpenVPN developer per se -- other than a few trivial
patches -- but I should be able to comment.
First -- the requirements for what you want a VPN to do in a grid
environment are something which
Mike Martin wrote:
It would need to last indefinitely, and be managed by a remote client,
using Web Services, with minimal human intervention
A tool such as runit, with some wrappers, can provide the most immediate
layer of management -- at least with regard to ensuring that the VPN
stays up
Hi Albert,
Thanks,
I have responded with in-line comments below:
Albert Siersema wrote:
I think you'll find you're better off stating in a short and concise
manner what it is you're looking for. As lots of open source people
work on FOSS projects in their spare time or at least have an allott
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I'm not an OpenVPN developer per se -- other than a few trivial patches
-- but I should be able to comment.
First -- the requirements for what you want a VPN to do in a grid
environment are something which need to be specified. Since OpenVPN is
limited to either a 2-endpoint peer-to-peer model
First of all: i'm not an OpenVPN developer.
I am, however, a programmer :)
There's LOTS of formal reading material to be found regarding APIs
and the definition of what can be called an API. Especially in
the academic CS field.
To be predictable, i'll insert a link to wikipedia here :)
http://en.w
