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[OT] Lightweight Alternative to OpenVPN
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Author:  mwalling [ Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:45 pm ]
Post subject:  [OT] Lightweight Alternative to OpenVPN

I was wondering if anyone knew of an alternative for OpenVPN for house <-> linode traffic. I've tried several times to install OpenVPN on my WRT54Gv1 (flashed with OpenWRT 7.09) and always run out of space installing OpenSSL.

Any recommendations?

Author:  SteveG [ Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:12 pm ]
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Stunnel maybe? (Don't know if it's actually smaller...but it's definitely harder to setup.) What I do is run OpenVPN on an internal host, not my router. It means extra routing setup if you want more than just that particular host to access the tunnel.

Author:  mwalling [ Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:15 pm ]
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In the past I've run it on an internal box, but I'm trying to cut down on the number of machines I leave on all the time while I'm not home.

I'll look at stunnel (read: see if it will install with out ballooning out to the entire size of the flash :/)

Author:  stonacek [ Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:43 pm ]
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I found that PPTP with dd-wrt (on WRT54G) to the linode (pptpd) works nicely. It's easy to configure and small. Downside is the poor tunnel encryption, so I wouldn't suggest you use it for security reasons.

dd-wrt has built-in support for pptp and you can easily create the right routes and filters based on the ppp connection. I imagine openWRT would be similar.

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