Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #114

From:	"Thomas Garson" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>	Full Headers Undecoded message
Subject:	Re: [OS2Wireless] OT OpenVPN
Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:54:52 -0800
To:	OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: ...... Original Message ....... On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:19:39 +0000 (GMT) "Dave Saville" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote: Has any one played with this (port on Hobbes)? TIA I did, but before I actually had support for SSL VPN tunnels on y Astaro firewalls. OpenVPN does NOT do IPSec, IIRC, only SSL. Of course the nice thing about SSL tunnels is that you can usually get in from behind other firewalls (no need for VPN passthrough a with IPSec). FWIW, I use SmoothWall loaded on one of my several "no longer cool" computers (which work super for this task) to provide firewall protection at home and at my lab. I know I should, but I no longer even bother to monitor the frequency and type of attacks that SmoothWall has blocked. When I do, there are usually hundreds of entries in the log each day. Either I've never has a single intrusion, or the invaders have been kind enough to just look around, do no damage and steal no data (NOT likely). SmoothWall is administered via a web browser, so you if you do not happen to be Linux centric, you can still manage "Smoothie" from whatever platform your favorite computer happens to be. Now to the point: SmoothWall also provides a VPN system that has worked extremely well for me for the last several years. It is relatively easy to setup, extremely fast and stable. There are two "levels" of SmoothWall, Enterprise and Personal. The Personal "license" is limited in the number of instances of SmoothWall you can run and the number of VPN tunnels you can have at one time, but is in no other way less functional than the Enterprise version, and it's free. While SmoothWall is really a specialized/task optimized version of Linux, it is blind to the nature of any O/S that may be communicating through it, as long as they are using proper TCP/IP. My network includes boxes that run a broad selection of Linuxes, OS/2 and, by necessity, three different versions of Windows. Thomas Garson Aural Technology, Ashland, Or.

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