[WT-support] HAMACHI

[Peter Bowyer]

I use them both. OpenVPN is an industrial-grade tool, very hard to
configure even for someone used to networking - all the GUI does is
let you edit the same opaque config file. Hamachi is the complete
opposite - very user-friendly, with documentation for the networking
novice and no alien concepts to learn.

Peter G4MJS

On 19/07/07, Mikael Larsmark <mike at sm3wmv.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Another option is openVPN. I used that and it's pretty easy to
> configure. There is something called openVPN GUI which can be used on
> the clients and it includes the openVPN package.
>
> http://openvpn.net/
>
> http://openvpn.se/files/install_packages/openvpn-2.0.9-gui-1.0.3-install.exe
>
> 73 de Mike (SM3WMV / SM3W)
>
> Peter Bowyer skrev:
> > Hamachi is a bit different - it offers a centrally-managed access
> > control mechanism, enabling you to create a multipoint vpn and control
> > who joins it. It also has some clever proxy functionality that allows
> > it to traverse firewalls. Instant messenger functionality built-in,
> > too.
> >
> > Peter G4MJS
> >
> > On 19/07/07, Olivier F5MZN <olecam at f5mzn.org> wrote:
> >> VE2RYY wrote:
> >>> Hello
> >>> Anyone in the group familiar with AMACHI (VPN)
> >>> Is it for the CLIENT or a SERVER????
> >>> I would appreciate infos.
> >>> Again thanks..
> >> I don't know Amachi at all, but my guess is that the build-in Microsoft
> >> VPN client/server in WinXP would work without any problem, as soon as
> >> (still IMO because I never tried it before) each XP machine of the
> >> network is client of a central VPN server.
> >>
> >> Configure an XP station as VPN server:
> >> http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn_server.htm
> >>
> >> Configure an XP station as VPN client:
> >> http://www.mcgill.ca/ics/tools/vpn/winxp/
> >>
> >> HTH
> >>
> >> 73,
> >> --
> >> Olivier / f5mzn
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