On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Paul Wrightson wrote: > Well, no, there is no technical reason not to use OpenVPN (and I have > used it before). However, there are two reasons that I use Hamachi - the > first is that I can have access via a laptop from anywhere without the > need for a static (or semi-static) IP
whence arises such a need? I use it from my laptop all of the time, to automatically establish a VPN to my datacenter, and never have to change anything when I alter IPs via DHCP, or just plug into some foreign network. In fact, I don't think I've touched the OpenVPN configuration on that laptop in years. I'm using tun devices, with shared secret keys; but the other methods should work as well. > and the second is so that I can > move my OpenVZ containers without messing around with the rest of my > network (the Hamachi config moves with the container). I'm less sure about this one, but by the same logic as the above, I am not seeing why OpenVPN should have a problem with this. True, there will be a delay while a new route is configured, but by careful adjustment to ping reset delays, you could get that down to a reasonable twenty seconds or so maximum, I should think. and that's only if you can't have what ever command transfers the container run a shell script which sends the proper signal to OpenVPN to cause it to exit and reconstitute the route immediately. Luke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list Ledger-smb-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
