John R Pierce wrote: > > Do you have a lot of experience with this VPN solution? Is it rock > > solid reliable? > > > openVPN is by far the cleanest, easiest to setup and easiest to use > VPN I've seen to date. It can handle LAN to LAN tunnels, client to > LAN, client to host, all sorts of combinations, its quite easy to > setup the routing, etc etc. > > it uses a simple SSL socket as its transport, so its friendly with > 'NAT' firewall/routers. > > there's a GUI client for windows, you can give that to someone, and > give them a config file for it with prebuilt public keys, they > install the GUI client, then drop the conf file into the right > directory and they are online in seconds. As an additional bonus, the GUI install, config file, and key files will all fit on a floppy! Not that floppies get all that much use these days, but I always hate to burn a CD with only 1-2 MB of data... -- Bowie