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Post #161,570
by FuManChu
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6/25/04 12:34:44 AM
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New The thing to understand about OpenVPN
...is it's not a traditional VPN. It's bridged ethernet. So your authentication can be whatever you would use on your wired network, *truly* tranparently over the tunnel. So, yes, you can run it on the Fedora box, but I wouldn't. Go get a cheap or used box for dedicated OpenVPN--it's just passing packets.
Post #161,629
by folkert
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6/25/04 1:35:30 PM
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New Yes... that is the ticket.
When I find a better ISP (really I mean *IF*) I will be doing that.


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Post #161,672
by cforde
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6/25/04 7:00:25 PM
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New I already have a cheap box
it's the firewall running IPCop. So I could put OpenVPN on it. I just have to tell IPCop to accept traffic on the appropriate ports (5000+ that I use). Is that right? It's still not clear to me that having OpenVPN on the same machine as the firewall is a good idea. FedoraNews has an [link|http://fedoranews.org/contributors/florin_andrei/openvpn/|article] that shows it set up that way though.
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Post #161,703
by FuManChu
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6/26/04 12:19:34 AM
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New I'm not sure how that would work.
...since OpenVPN acts more like a network switch than a VPN, it would tend to "take over" most packets bouncing across its internal NIC, I think. Hm. I'm not enough of an IP guru to know if that would work or not. Try it and let us know? <:)
     IPCop & OpenVPN/Poptop - (cforde) - (4) - June 24, 2004, 03:49:56 PM EDT
         The thing to understand about OpenVPN - (FuManChu) - (3) - June 25, 2004, 12:34:44 AM EDT
             Yes... that is the ticket. - (folkert) - June 25, 2004, 01:35:30 PM EDT
             I already have a cheap box - (cforde) - (1) - June 25, 2004, 07:00:25 PM EDT
                 I'm not sure how that would work. - (FuManChu) - June 26, 2004, 12:19:34 AM EDT

Like many lawyers, he's overly fond of argument, even when in agreement. Not that anyone here would be into that...
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