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- caldroun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12This sounds a lot like Hamachi. I haven't read the article yet.
- knupso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Oh damn you got me weeping!.
Isn't Raccoon spelled with 2 C's? - bradk50, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7 I must be missing something. Hows this different from a normal vpn setup? You always get an internal IP address and have a choice to route all internet traffic through the vpn...At least with all the vpn software I have used.
- 350Zed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5WOW!!!
VPN with NAT? Amazing... if this was 1995.
No Digg... very lame. - 350Zed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@moonwell
Were you dropped on your head as a child?
Make your point in a way that can be understood, or don't even try. Let people assume you're a moron, instead of proving it to them with meaningless posts. - neozeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Somehow OpenVPN seems more flexible platform wise.... What is so special about this?
- jamesthejust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'd thoroughly recommend Hamachi (http://www.hamachi.cc/).
- st23am, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I am not seeing any advantages to this over something like a VPN setup thru a WatchGuard firewall and such. Am I missing something?
- st23am, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4My thoughts exactly.
- Quiwan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"hamachi is okay, but all your traffic passes through their IPs and for a "corporate" solution that is not going to fly. Personally, OpenVPN is a better choice....but using raccoon is cute..errrr..works too :)"
All Traffic doesn't pass through there servers, only the handshaking, after that its a peer to peer connection.
OpenVPN is a good choice, but as far as easy of use and implementation, hamachi all the way. - L0t3k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
If you're using a softclient to a watchguard, sonicwall or usr, etc... no, this is nothing new. In fact, it's a much more complicated way of doing the same thing... but cheaper. - crash3m, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Speaking from experience with racoon, avoid it at all costs! If you have a 'flapping host' (e.g. one that constantly initiates a connection because a misconfigured firewall doesn't allow the 'ack' to pass back to the host) will drag the server to its knees. Around ~200 connections later the server just stops listening for new connections. The process is alive, and any hosts that were connected will stay that way until it comes time for them to re-key, at which point they will endlessly try to reconnect until the racoon process is restarted. If your after a better choice, try OpenS/WAN
- rufo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, but do you *know* that?
Hamachi is superb, don't get me wrong, but for real corporate security the fact that it's a black box that makes connections to other people's servers (and may route your connection through a third-party as well) means it will never fly unless LogMeIn releases a run-your-own mediation server. - ceralor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Hello? Read the article more closely! It's like if you're behind an NAT you can't configure! For example, I could use this to connect to my machine here, which is behind at least three routers, all configured by the apartment I'm living at! My machine initiates a connection to this VPN gateway, and then I run the client off my thumbdrive to initiate a connection to the gateway as well, allowing this gateway to act as a connection coupler of sorts.
- wheezl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I second the OpenVPN vote. OpenVPN does all of this and more, while running on just about any platform imaginable. Our office of Windows, MacOS X, Linux, and FreeBSD road warriors love it to pieces. It even works over http proxies for those particularly hateful networks you may find yourself on.
If I find anything about raccoon that is special I'll certainly post again admitting that I am an ass. - atmodiws, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh wow. You can even do this with PPTP VPN. Nothing new with this.
- AshyRaccoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Isn't Raccoon spelled with 2 C's?"
Sometimes. It's what I'm used to, obviously. However, "racoon" is also valid according to various dictionaries. (dictionary.com and m-w.com list it as a variant of raccoon) - paulmdx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1My guessing is this is something out of the ordinary for Linux? As above I was a bit confused as this kind of support is built into Windows.
- L0t3k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1My only question about OpenVPN is, "What mongoloid offered up that site and logo?"
I'm sure their software is great, but what the hell? That's not even remotely professional...such that I can't imagine pitching it as a solution to any manager who might go look it up. - craig35, on 02/21/2009, -0/+0Personal VPN and you're done.
http://www.personalvpn.org/
Open VPN - rhavenn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I'd thoroughly recommend Hamachi (http://www.hamachi.cc/).
hamachi is okay, but all your traffic passes through their IPs and for a "corporate" solution that is not going to fly. Personally, OpenVPN is a better choice....but using raccoon is cute..errrr..works too :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I get an internal 500 error.
- edit its working now, nice article. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0@knupso:
you my friend are an idiot wrapped in a moron - ingsw3, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0I don´t understand your comment, could you explain it again??
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Still better than you who spent his childhood in the ghetto after his mommy wasn't satisfied with your pussy licking technic, so get lost you bugger...
The 90% of the diggers don't even setup any vpn, big mouth. So obviously those who comment articles like this have no idea what the ***** is this all about, so maybe the meaningless comment is yours not mine, but I will not say you are a meaningless person cuz someone need to pickup my garbage or clean my apartment (someone like you). - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1haha kiddos, u have no idea what ipsec is and why better than other solution so stick with hamachi that's enough for your owned soho ultrahaxx0r network :D
aragon rofl - aragon127, on 10/12/2007, -36/+01st comment bitchez. Read it and weap.
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