Hi,
I agree with many of the comments posted so far, and in particular the note
from Sammuli about the barrier to entry with the current SW - I tried to help
fix some bugs, but it really is hard to find a way through the current code ...
:-(. I forsee this going downhill unfortunately, but I do see a few advantages
to OpenVPN-ALS also ...
- configuration: for basic usage, setting up port forwarding for a few ports is
easier than the network configuration that has to be done with OpenVPN
- distro compatibility: I am running SuSE (for HW compatibiltiy reasons, no
other distro would install on my old HW) ... but OpenVPN Access Server is not
available on this platform (however OpenVPN-ALS runs on basically any platform).
- VPN-over-VPN: I am unable to get OpenVPN working over top of a (Cisco) VPN
link, but OpenVPN-ALS works just fine (because it provides local port access).
So it is too bad to see OpenVPN-ALS go this way - it definitely has some
advantages (for me, and I'm sure other users).
Thanks!
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 07:11 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 12:23:03PM +0200, Arne Morten Johansen wrote:
> > That being said, I think it's sad that the project is fading away.
> > Commercial alternatives are so expensive. Like $100-200 per user. Sadly our
> > economic situation is not so good that we can afford to support this
> > project, then it would just be cheaper to go commercial. I think a project
> > of this magnitude needs at least $150 000 to get started again and attract
> > new developers.
>
> Good mail from Samuli. I were interrested about contributing adito some
> time ago. But when I dig deeper into source I did find same problems.
>
> Most discouraging experience were when I was studying Erlang programming
> language same time with Adito and found out how easily same problems
> could be solved with Erlang.
>
> Actually I think that Nortel built their own similar solution top of Erlang
> OS web server called YAWS (http://yaws.hyber.org/contribs.yaws).
> YAWS has ssl support, integrated json support and
> Linux-PAM authentication - so it supports any authentication Linux supports.
>
> I did check out YAWS source code and found out that turning it to
> Adito replacement would be quite simple (at least when comparing to JEE
> solution). Actually there is already yaws_revproxy.erl module in
> YAWS git tree. As usual nice gui would be the biggest job. Agent of course
> needs to stay JAVA.
>
> So I am happy about Samuli's new job and agree with his opinnions, but
> maybe questioning Arne's view about 'project magnitude' :)
>
> (Not that I am going to start such Erlang project, just being smart ass and
> sharing my findings.)
>
> -kontro-
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