On 8/25/09, Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
> Hey, Stan...
>
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:34:43 -0400 "Stan Sidlov"
> <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
>>The router should pass all VPN requests to the outside system. The router
>> has nothing to do with it, unless you intend to connect your home network
>> (in its entirety) to the other network, then the router makes the VPN
>> connection and dd-wrt has configuration pages for that function. Once the
>> router connects with the other network, why would you be running an OS2
>> client? AFAIK, dd-wrt passes through all client VPN connections.
>>
> PMFJ(B)I, but we are talking apples & oranges.
>
> The original (changed) OT subject (as it related to OpenVPN) had to do with
> OS/2 *remote* clients connecting to DD-WRT-powered LinkSys WRT54GL (and
> other OpenVPN-enabled routers/firewalls, VPN concentrators).
>
> The thread did *not* discuss client passthrough of SSL or IPSec VPN packets
> (and yes, all versions of DD-WRT firmware *should* pass IPSec packets if
> passthrough is enabled, as well as SSL - the latter without requiring any
> configuration changes).
>
> So, again, we weren't discussing the ability of OpenVPN on OS/2 to handle
> NAT traversal to talk to another OS/2 machine on a remote network, but
> rather a single OS/2 client connecting to a WRT54G endpoint, thus extending
> the LAN via VPN to the remote client.
>
> I hope that helps clarify the previous discussion, and perhaps we can get
> back on topic (for this list) sometime soon! :-)
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