From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.23]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2820093 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:38:34 -0400 Message-ID: <4A902D17.2090309@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:38:31 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090704 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.17 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: Is there such a device? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Ed... On 08/22/09 12:03 am, Ed Durrant thus wrote : > Ed Durrant wrote: >> Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >>> Hi, Jim... >>> >>> On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:51:40 -0700 "Jim Showalter" >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Is there a device which will simultaneously act as a wireless >>>> bridge (wired connection) and wireless extender/expander? >>>> Basically, a WAP with ethernet cable connections which connects >>>> wirelessly to the main WAP and accepts wireless connections to pass >>>> on as well? >>>> >>> A LinkSys WRT54GL (or another supported wireless router) flashed >>> with DD-WRT firmware can do exactly what you want (wireless repeater >>> & 4-port wired switch). >>> >>> See http://www.dd-wrt.com for more details. >> While on the point of the Linksys WRT54 - does it have VPN >> capabilities ? >> > Sorry I should have added, with an OS/2 compatible client. > The VPN implementation in the VPN-enabled builds of DD-WRT is based on OpenVPN. We have a port of OpenVPN available for OS/2 (see Hobbes), thanks to Pasha. Andy & I attempted to upgrade the OpenVPN build to a newer one, and while we did succeed, there were login issues encountered (Pasha's build works well for OS/2 <-> OS/2 connections, but not for client <-> server). Building yet a newer version led me into a brick wall, and Paul (Smedley) graciously assisted my efforts, guiding me along the way (thanks again, Paul!). Still, my building was unsuccessful. Finally, Paul built a new one, based on the 2.1 RC12 sources. The login issue persisted, but he managed to fix that for me. Unfortunately, we got stalled again with the TAP/TUN driver. Pasha's build of the driver currently only supports TAP, whereas client to site VPN implementations of OpenVPN require tunneling (TUN) functionality. Thus, which I was finally able to authenticate, I could not carry any traffic. Read more about where we left off: http://mantis.smedley.info/view.php?id=276 . So, to come back around to answer your question (and I suppose we are getting a bit far afield for this list!), we do not yet have a working SSL VPN client capable of connecting to a device running OpenVPN (such as the DD-WRT firmware or the Astaro Security Gateway). -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com Secure, stable, operating system www.ecomstation.com -------------------------------------------------------------