VPN Recommendations?

[sablefoxx]

I'm looking for a VPN that runs on OSx/Win/Linux, any recommendations?

[SomeoneE1se]

OpenVPN

[deleted]

OpenVPN

Second.

[Sparda]

OpenVPN

Third and a halfed

[snakey]

4th and 3/4

[deleted]

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[Sparda]

? log ?'ed

[SmoothCriminal]

And why don't you just say plus one?

[Sparda]

And why don't you just say plus one?

Talking about encryption, so cryptic messages are required.

[SmoothCriminal]

And why don't you just say plus one?

Talking about encryption, so cryptic messages are required.

Oh, gotcha  :-P

[SomeoneE1se]

vpn != encryption

[MrNaysayer]

Avid user of OpenVPN here. It is the best VPN software in my opinion.

[Sparda]

vpn != encryption

Why does does OpenVPN need you to setup public/private keys for the server and every client?

[SmoothCriminal]

Certificate based security?

[SomeoneE1se]

vpn != encryption

Why does does OpenVPN need you to setup public/private keys for the server and every client?

authentication you can have a VPN without encryption and if you set one up incorrectly you might as well not have any at all

[Sparda]

The point of a VPN is to have a emulated connection that gives the equivalent security as if a real physical connection had been used. A VPN with no encryption is not a VPN and it has a name, "The internet", you might have herd of it ;)

[VaKo]

ipsec

[SomeoneE1se]

Not if you're not on the same subnet/need to use broadcast packets, if I'm not mistaken the routers drop them.

[Sparda]

Not if you're not on the same subnet/need to use broadcast packets, if I'm not mistaken the routers drop them.

Why would you want to create a virtual network connection over the Internet that any one can monitor? That requires that who ever created it be clicked into a apparently bottomless pit because it's madness ;)

[SomeoneE1se]

why overclock a WRT54G?

And if I wanted to play pax with someone over the internet I wouldn't need encryption would I?

[Sparda]

You would because if any one 'spotted' (on the internet?) it they could inject packets and you would have no defense (other than firewalls running on the local computers).

[SomeoneE1se]

...they would inject packets into a pax game?

[Sparda]

...they would inject packets into a pax game?

Not the game necessarily, any computer on your network. Admittedly it would have to be a brute force guess the IP address of the computers, routers and printers attack, but it would work.

[SomeoneE1se]

really you could do that with out a VPN

and it would be easyer

[Sparda]

really you could do that with out a VPN

and it would be easyer

No, you miss the point.

If you have a router you are much better off then a direct internet connection, that makes it impossible to direct traffic to known LAN IP address.

If you then open a port and run a unencrypted virtual network service on that port, you just defeated every thing the router does except you still only have one internet IP address, Internal IP addresses will be included as part of the data of each packet rather than in the packet header, so that doesn't matter. Even if you allow connection to and from a trusted Ip on the internet, it doesn't matter. If some one gets that IP they can spoof ip so easy it's sill. If you use TCP (rather than UDP, but most VPN solutions (not that this is a VPN) use UDP) it would be harder for packet injection to occur but still possible.