VPN choices?

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014, Alex Pereklad wrote:
> 14.03.2014 11:33, Uwe Laverenz ??????????:
>> I would recommend OpenVPN: it's free, reliable, scalable and quite  
>> easy to install. There are tons of docs and howtos available.
>>
>> If you need a comfortable windows client, please have a look at this one:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/securepoint/files/?source=navbar
>>
> OpenVPN has very strange behavior sometimes. For example, on server you  
> have server's side of VPN tunnel IP 192.168.1.1 and client's side IP  
> 192.168.1.2. You suppose that you openvpn client gets tunnel IP  
> 192.168.1.2. But that's not true. The client thinks that it has IP  
> 192.168.1.6 and the server has 192.168.1.5 %-( That's strange :-) And  
> you can't ping IP 192.168.1.2 from server, but can ping 192.168.1.6 :-)  
> But you have to set 192.168.1.2 as router to the client's network, not  
> 192.168.1.6.

That's not an OpenVPN problem, but the result of using commodity
routers with their default 192.168.1.0/24 LAN networks at both
ends of the tunnel.

Change the LAN addresses on one or both ends of the connection to
different private subnets that don't conflict.

Bill
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