[CentOS] regarding vpn server for 1500 clients
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.com
Fri Dec 19 18:48:41 UTC 2008
on 12-19-2008 10:33 AM Les Mikesell spake the following:
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> How about lots of GRE tunnels? :-)
>>>>
>>> I've done that with a few connections - mostly connecting to Cisco
>>> routers to pass multicast streams. I'm not sure how it would scale up
>>> in terms of the interface numbers and managing routes but it should work.
>> What was the network environment like that the tunnels went over?
>
> Some over the internet, some private, but always with fixed src/dest
> addresses and nothing going over them that couldn't have run unencrypted
> over the internet.
>
If it doesn't need to be encrypted, then why do you need tunnels?
Couldn't you just set a route on the remote machines and use that?
Could be as simple as a batch file/shell script.
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