From: "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Message-ID: <4A944C54.6050501@durrant.mine.nu>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:40:52 +1000
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: Is there such a device?
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Yes I wanted to use the Router as the VPN endpoint to my complete LAN.

I know that VPN pass-through functions can be enabled or disabled, even 
in the Linksys firmware.

Why do I want an OS/2 client? Because I run eCS on my netbook which I 
take with me when travelling and I'd like to connect back into the home 
network.

I could use Lan Distance I suppose, but that again would mean that I'd 
need to have the software on one of the systems rather than in the 
router, which is a simpler and cleaner solution.

Cheers/2

Ed.

Stan Sidlov 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.  
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Ed Durrant 
> <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com 
> <mailto:os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>> wrote:
>
>     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.
>
>     Cheers/2
>     Ed.
>
>     Stan Sidlov wrote:
>
>         the DD-WRT firmware on a Linksys (or other compatible router)
>         is extremely compatible with OS/2....never ever had an issue,
>         and I've run this type of hardware firmware for many years now
>         - long enough to 'burn out' the router since I overdrive the
>         transmitter by 200%. I run an average of 500-700GBytes per
>         month through mine.
>         OS/2 did not report the PC's name in the way the router
>         expected (which only led to a blank name in the client table
>         the router served addresses and DNS perfectly). I believe it
>         took an optional statement in the tcpip.config file to have
>         the 'name' show up in the client table on the router.  The
>         router and firmware is totally compatible with DOCSIS and all
>         PPoE variants, PPTP, L2TP etc.  DD-WRT works with all dynamic
>         client services, too. Preconfigured for Dyndns, freedns,
>         zoneEdit, no-ip, 3322.org <http://3322.org> <http://3322.org>,
>         easyDNS, TZO, DynSIP and you can configure a custom ddns
>         service too. Overclocked it will handle a 27mb wan connection
>         with the SPI firewall turned on, and about 30mb with the spi
>         turned off and safely fanless overclock to 250mHz.
>
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