On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:54:32PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:14:34PM -0500, Ross Walker wrote: > > > >> On Dec 19, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> How about lots of GRE tunnels? :-) > >>> > >> Well PPTP is PPP over GRE, so that's basically it. > >> > >> PPTP can run without encryption too if the OP really doesn't care > >> about encryption. > >> > >> > > > > The only thing I'll say in the world of using PPTP (via PoPToP) is to > > consider what happens when most or all of your clients reconnect at one > > time (network glitch, etc). This was my biggest challenge as the > > original configuration had PPP calling all sorts of perl scripts and > > such from its ip-up mechanism. The server would come to a complete > > crawl as 800+ of these ip-up scripts would fire off along with their > > associated tasks. This would result in clients timing out, links > > failing, etc -- the server could never "catch up". > > > > I was recommending it based on the protocol. I did mention that I have > limited deployment experience. > > OUCH. All that perl could really kill the user experience..... > > Almost as bad as a D-H exponentiation! > It gets even worse... whoever had set up the system first didn't now how to get the IP address correctly from a variable in the ip-up script. So what'd they do? They called grep on /var/log/messages to look for it. You can imagine the fun this created.... :-)