Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #6155

From: "Hakan" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] OT: VPN Connectivity (was: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: Is there such a device?)
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:22:38 -0400 (EDT)
To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

Thank you, Lewis.

On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:10:19 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:

>Hi, Hakan...
>
>On 08/23/09 02:21 pm, Hakan thus wrote :
>> Hi Lewis, What are the chances to connect to a large corporation's
>> server using the OS/2 VPN client? Even if the OS/2 version would work
>> with OpenVPN, would it work with other VPN "servers"?
>>
>>  
>Again, AFAIK, *any* server-side implementation of OpenVPN (SSL) is going
>to utilize tunneling, thus requiring TUN support in the TAP/TUN driver,
>which we do not currently have. However, if the VPN is IPSec (i.e., not
>SSL), the InJoy VPN client should work (I recently purchased an InJoy
>license specifically to test this, but have not had the time to devote
>to picking through the configuration files in the absence of a good
>How-To for connecting InJoy to Astaro's IPSec (which is based on
>Openswan, I believe).
>
>So, the quick answer to your question, in two parts, is:
>
>SSL (OpenVPN) - no.
>IPSec (Openswan / FreeS/WAN) - probably.
>
>HTH
>
><snip>
>
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>Lewis
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