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On 9/21/05, /dev/rob0 <rob0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 21 September 2005 17:11, Kevin wrote: > > I've been working on getting OpenVPN working one and off all summer > > for the school district I work for. We need to link small off campus > > sites (to expensive or short term leases to run fiber) back to our > > main lan via cable modem links so we can route them through our > > content filter. > > > > So the goal here is to route all traffic of the offsite lan through > > our main gatway. > > Ouch! I say, that hurts. ALL traffic through the main gateway? Has the > idea of digging out some old computers to deploy as per-site content > filters been considered? A modest old machine (P-II class) might > suffice. Surely a P-III, too weak to look good with today's MS OS'es, > would be more than adequate. > > > Throughout learning openvpn, and trying to get it set up, routing has > > been the most difficult. I had everything working at one point using > > static routing which won't work when we add multiple offsites. > > Why not? I have multiple sites connected through static routes. Some > even are multiple VPN hops away. Unless you have a huge number of sites or sites that dynamically change their internal subnets a properly designed IP structure static routes will work. -- Leonard Isham, CISSP Ostendo non ostento. ____________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |