From: "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Message-ID: <4A93BA6A.4010806@durrant.mine.nu>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:18:18 +1000
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: Is there such a device?
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Doug LaRue wrote:
> ** Reply to message from "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:02:08 +1000
>
>
>   
>> While the WRT54G as a basic network device works fine with OS/2 (I have 
>> been using one as my main router here for many years), my question was 
>> related to an OS/2 VPN client - from what Lewis says  the VPN support in 
>> the WRT54G (even flashed with the DD-WRT firmware) does not have an OS/2 
>> compatible client that is able to access the system from another 
>> location via the Internet.
>>     
>
> I couldn't dig up the previous comments regarding openvpn on OS/2 or eCS
> but I did google for it and found a statement which said that openvpn was
> ported to OS/2. As Hobbes list it, it's 3 years old but here's the link:
>
> http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=openvpn&pushbutton=Search
>
> maybe what was said regarded backward compatibility.
>
> Doug
>   
Thanks that looks rather interesting - it is a server and client package 
with a TAP driver for the server included. Whether it works with the 
version of OPENVPN that the WRT54G supports, remains to be seen, but for 
a start it looks pretty good - thanks.


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