I've got the colo'd server in place for this project already, and
traffic isn't an issue as it's flat-rated, the user-proof install/setup
is the sticking point for the moment.

I've been playing aroung with Open VPN at the moment, which I've always
liked, but on Vista it's a bit messy, XP/mac/Linux is OK, ish.

I hate it when I make rash promises that don't come true. :-).



On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 21:13 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:

> It shouldn't be too difficult to package openvpn, but there'll be some of 
> those idiot software firewalls that'll get in the way I expect. However, 
> you'd have to provide the server, and the traffic would probably route 
> through it.
> 
> It's got to be better, though, being open source (:
> 
> Steve
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:39:00 +1300
> Chris Hellyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi-ho folks....
> > 
> > Does anyone know of a good FOSS hamachi equivalent which scales to
> > 1000's of end users?
> > 
> > ie: Extremely easy to deploy peer-to-peer IP VPN solution which does
> > nat/pat/firewall/proxy traversal for non-tech users.
> > 
> > For those who haven't used hamachi, it's a very cool cross-platform IP
> > level VPN tool which does pretty good nat/firewall traversal and just
> > works on 95% of the systems you throw it at.
> > 
> > I need to be able to email a link and _SIMPLE_ instructions to lower
> > than lowest common denominator users who's 1st language is not English.
> > Currently hamachi does the job, but we've discovered that it doesn't go
> > past 50 users per VPN.  For windows, mac and linux clients as well..
> > don't want much. :-)
> > 
> > Cheers, Me.
> > 
> 
> 

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