On 25/11/10 4:07 AM, tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote: > > > I am looking for the optimal VPN. Well it doens't have to be that elaborate. > Just the best VPN. We currently have some customers using PPTP, some using > openvpn, some using Cisco Any Connect and there are a few others. Be careful with the Cisco VPN solutions. Cisco's VPN client is notoriously bad at handling 64-bit architecture and frequently induces kernel panics (I've seen this in both Linux and OS X systems). > So my question is, if you have control of both ends (client and server) > what is the best VPN to use? There are not too many requirements, but a > big one is I'd go for OpenVPN, it's free and widely supported across multiple platforms. > The VPN must return the same IP address to the same user each time > > That is there must be a specific IP address assigned to a user/password > combination. pptp does not really do this but I wrote sort of a backend > (or maybe frontend? ;-) ) to change the IP address assigned based on a > login and password. It is extra stuff I would prefer not to do though. RADIUS can assign a specific IP to a given user, but let OpenVPN handle the encryption. Regards, Ben -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 227 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101201/da0c0637/attachment-0005.sig>