[AccessD] VPN

Have you used it?

Remember I need a business VPN where clients see a server but not each other.  This really sounds 
like a "friends" VPN for allowing a bunch of "friends" to see each other, exactly the opposite of 
what I need.

However I haven't explored beyond their description page.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 6/4/2012 4:39 AM, Gustav Brock wrote:
> Hi John
>
> Gbridge:
>
> http://www.gbridge.com/
>
> Authenticates each peer with a Gtalk account.
>
> /gustav
>
>
>>>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 04-06-12 5:06>>>
> I have used Hamachi since forever.  Recently they limited the number of users on any given (free)
> network to 5, which is pretty much useless.
>
> So I am on the hunt.
>
> My situation is as follows.  I have several different SQL Server databases, all running on a server
> here at my office.  These are low traffic DBs but they are for entirely different clients.  Using
> Hamachi I built a VPN for each client, different LAN name, different password, only the people I
> allowed could join the networks.  The Hamachi software allowed me to set up "types" of networks
> including mesh (everything could see everything), and hub and spoke where everything could see the
> hub but the spokes could not see each other.  That is really what I need.  In my case the spokes are
> individual's computers in "virtual companies" and nobody wants other people seeing / accessing their
> computers.
>
> What I am hoping to accomplish is to get some Linux widget being my VPN "server", allowing me to do
> the same kind of thing.  As I said I have always used Hamachi and it was slick and worked (mostly)
> but I cannot afford to buy the new Hamachi licenses, these are non-profits and I do not charge them
> for what I am doing.
>
> So does anyone know of an "equivalent" to what Hamachi does?  I am even willing to go buy an (under
> $200) "router" box to do this, however whatever it is needs to be easy to set up.  There is the
> potential to have dozens of users that I have to manage access for and I really don't want to get
> bogged down in that job.
>
> What would be ideal would be a VM on Hyper-V running Linux running MySQL and an easy to manage
> firewall app for setting this stuff up.
>
> What I have figured out how to do is a VM on Hyper-V running Windows 2003 X32 running SQL Server and
> Hamachi, which was working just fine until a couple of months ago when LogMeIn decided to play
> nasty.  Sigh.
>