| Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #6183 |
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"Stan Sidlov" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> |
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Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: OT: OpenVPN |
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Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:11:52 -0400 |
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"OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> |
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Ed if I offended you by asking that I'm SORRY.
My understanding was that Ed wanted to connect his eCS laptop as a VPN client with a network using a router as the VPN server instead of using an eCS computer as a VPN server behind a firewall/router. There is not a single router that I am aware of that uses any version of OS/2 as it's OS. Yes, you can setup a eCS/OS/2 computer to do routing, firewall, and VPN. I thought that Ed had already done this in the past and was looking to get past the 'computer' requirement.
There are lots of routers that use DD-WRT or other OpenWRT branches all of which are a Linux variants. DD-WRT has two options for VPN servers, PPTP which is MS based protocols and OpenVPN which Lewis has now said is not a full implimentation on OS/2. Asking how well the eCS client connects with Windows-like PPTP VPN servers is not out of line, from my perspective since it offers a viable cheap hardware-software solution without actually running Windows (like so many other things) In fact, if I needed a eCS laptop to connect back via VPN, and I found the eCS VPN inadequate, carrying a hardware router to handle the VPN connection for me is not out of the question since the routers are cheap, and easy to setup,
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Doug LaRue
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** Reply to message from "Stan Sidlov" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> on Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:57:18 -0400
Stan, you should re-read the thread because that comment is way off base.
If you do and understand it, you'll see that _you_ asked Ed if he can connect his
eCS to an Windows Server using PPTP and all he said was that _he_ didn't care
about connecting to Windows. He didn't say anything about what you, or anybody
else does with their computers in regards to VPN connectivity. He has a desire
to connect multiple eCS based systems regarless of what anyone else is doing.