Given the fact that he reads slashdot, the people here are NOT total random strangers. No doubt he knows they are more technically minded than most.
Some here are very familiar with the IT/computer industry and have a good idea what's coming down the road technically in the future. Of course I'll admit that some advice here should be ignored, but I'd be willing to sift through it to find the good ideas.
Personally, I am very interesting in finding out what the slashdot crowd has to say about this.
I tried a few different methods of establishing a vpn between my apartment and my parents house (also home office). i used cipe for a while but after getting vtun working, it was a lot better.
i especially like the compression! i could copy a zip file from my computer to the server at the other end and the transfer rate was consistent with the bandwidth cap of my cable modem. but transferring something like an access database was a lot faster (access dbs can usually be compressed quite a bit). basically no point to zipping before transfer as it happens automatically.
vtun has quite a few options and methods of transport and i'd highly recommend it!
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Given the fact that he reads slashdot, the people here are NOT total random strangers. No doubt he knows they are more technically minded than most.
Some here are very familiar with the IT/computer industry and have a good idea what's coming down the road technically in the future. Of course I'll admit that some advice here should be ignored, but I'd be willing to sift through it to find the good ideas.
Personally, I am very interesting in finding out what the slashdot crowd has to say about this.
I tried a few different methods of establishing a vpn between my apartment and my parents house (also home office). i used cipe for a while but after getting vtun working, it was a lot better.
i especially like the compression! i could copy a zip file from my computer to the server at the other end and the transfer rate was consistent with the bandwidth cap of my cable modem. but transferring something like an access database was a lot faster (access dbs can usually be compressed quite a bit). basically no point to zipping before transfer as it happens automatically.
vtun has quite a few options and methods of transport and i'd highly recommend it!
-- Joel