[nzlug] VPN/Tunnel software

[Robin Sheat]

On Monday 02 October 2006 12:51, Michal Ludvig wrote:
> - It can run over UDP or TCP and even over HTTP proxies.
I use OpenVPN on both Windows and Linux clients, with the server being Linux, 
and it works great. The bit quoted is very important however, many VPN 
programs use IPSec which requires special IP protocols to be used. Most home 
ADSL routers don't understand any IP protocols other than TCP, UDP and a 
little bit of ICMP, so you're usually out of luck if you need to use them. 
OpenVPN avoids these issues quite nicely (and once set up, it runs along 
quite well with zero maintenence)

Robin.