I've tested PPTP and OpenVPN on XO. Works fine. The PPP MPPE module is already present (drivers/net/ppp_mppe.ko). Using a VPN adds overhead to the network communication. Isn't as secure as you might think.
I'm the release engineer for PPTP on Linux, and C. Scott Ananian in OLPC is the author. I've not tried it on XS. PPTP project did some load calculations a year or two ago, and found that a 500Mhz 64Mb server could handle several hundred users so long as they did not try to do something all at the same time. It would be practical to test on XS, but it is a zero sum game, you'd lose capacity. In my opinion, avoid creating a false sense of security ... the kids should be taught personal information privacy very early, and the best way to do that is for them to make small mistakes and learn from them. France. Are you sure you can use strong cryptographic encryption? I seem to remember some hindrance at law. I haven't kept up to date with that. -- James Cameron mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://quozl.netrek.org/ _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
