8 Jun
2012
8 Jun
'12
4:13 a.m.
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 01:36:50PM -0700, Eric Fort wrote:
the mention of using openvpn was mostly intended as a
nudge. While IPIP
seems to be the defacto standard for amprnet tunneling, it's about the only
place I've seen it used much. The tools for tunnels/vpn links are out
there but something such as openvpn is much more widely supported than
ipip....
As a historical note, we used IPIP tunnels because that's all there was
when we got started. This was early; we were using tunnels even before
a protocol ID byte value had been assigned to IPIP. VPNs hadn't been
invented yet.
Indeed, we've discussed using openvpn before and the response was
generally favorable. It would be a great step forward for the tunneled
parts of the network.
- Brian