[nycbug-talk] VPN vs IPsec

Jonathan jonathan
Sun Jul 17 19:47:41 EDT 2005


Marc Spitzer wrote:
> 
> You forgot pptp, done correctly on a proper os it is not a security
> problem.  Now my one remembered PITA from the one time I set up open
> vpn was that each client had to have its own port assigned on the
> server, this was using udp.  Not bad for 5 or 10 users but I would
> hate to manage it for a few hundred or more.
> 

OpenVPN 2 now supports using a single port for all connections among a 
lot of other new features.  In fact *I believe* it has port 1194 
assigned by IANA.

Jonathan




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