Hello SunRay-Users, I guess I forgot to ask about one more possible combination: Linux-based VPN software running in Solaris looking like Linux - SUNWlx branded zones.
Perhaps the 2.4 kernel emulation is good enough, or the VPN software servers like raccoon don't really rely on specific Linux-kernel-only features? (grasping for straws here) :^) That is, if anybody has practical suggestions whether this would/would not work - they are very welcome. Thanks in advance, //Jim Sunday, April 26, 2009, 1:41:33 PM, you wrote: JK> Hello SunRay-Users, JK> I've read with great interest a post a few months back, about JK> using Linux-based raccoon VPN service to emulate Cisco EasyVPN JK> to allow for SunRay connections. The choice of Raccoon and Linux JK> was because no Solaris-based software stack allowed for adequate JK> VPN server. JK> Did anything change over the past months? Is it possible to JK> build a pure Solaris-based VPN server which can accept SunRay2 JK> connections? We want our Solaris 10u6 firewall/gateway server JK> to do VPNs as well. JK> We currently started to play around with OpenVPN 2.1rc15 - JK> after looking around a bit we concluded that it seems to be JK> the only VPN service capable of running on Solaris - and even JK> that requires third-party TUN/TAP drivers. However it seems JK> to run over IP (tcp/udp port 1194 by default) and does not JK> use IP GRE (IP type 47) packets. Which kind of VPN is used JK> by SunRays? Perhaps we didn't search long enough and there JK> are some other free/open VPN software solutions on Solaris? JK> If not, would a virtual machine running on top of the gateway JK> machine (in VirtualBox or Xen xVM's) with a Linux Raccoon provide JK> any sort of performance for this task (if only a POC or to connect JK> a handful of SunRay at home DTUs to the office)? JK> Kind of offtopic maybe, but perhaps someone knows: does the JK> Xen or VirtualBox xVM's networking stack emulate the lowlevel JK> network well enough to make these VPN servers runnable at all? -- Best regards, Jim Klimov mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
