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[John Colby]

So from my side, OpenVPN requires that I get into Linux when everything 
else I do is in Windows.  A non-starter as an absolute requirement.  
Second, the $10 / year / client.  One might as well just go with LogMeIn 
(in terms of price).

Now if the server side would run on Windows Server, AND it absolutely 
just worked without the oddball "relay" crap from Hamachi...

But its server doesn't run on Windows so I continue my search.

I am using Wippien at the moment, which mostly works.  And yet one 
specific client can see but not connect to another specific client.

Sigh.

On 3/1/2016 7:16 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi John:
>
> I really think that OpenVPN is the best solution.
>
> It does take a little more work than an abstracted package like LogMeIn/Hamachi but the truth is that their cores are exactly the same...SSL protocol. Note that running the LogMeIn suite and OpenVPN on the same box may cause conflicts (blue screens)...for obvious reasons. When setup properly the remote station will appear as just another computer on the network list. You can just assign your end of the private network to any available IP address on your server/client end and then that pipe is bridged to another non-conflicting IP address on the remote network/station. The performance is limited only by the available bandwidth. These connections can be automated through the station bootup cycle and then the system can retry to acquire a connection, at assigned intervals, indefinitely.
>
> One interesting thing is that you can set up, is any level of encryption. A friend tried AES 4096 with ECC but it took a good ten minutes to generate the key...astronomic over-kill but it is good to know that no one for ten thousands years will be able to crack it. ;-) AES 256 and 1024 generate keys almost instantaneously and are not crackable by our current technology.
>
> Some techs have limited performance issues by renting a Cloud droplet (for as little as $5.00 per month) and then run their remote operations through a tier1 pipe. On DigitalOcean there is no extra costs for data transferred through a private network! How that works I don't know but I hope to be able to do some serious testing in a month or so.
>
> Of course this application is hardly a product that you would expect a home user to master as it is a little more industrial strength, than the likes of LogMeIn but it is infinitely flexible and with its co-partner SSH, has been around in various forms even before the internet existed...and is still under active development.
>
> ...And you don't have to pay extra to stream a movie or music across the internet and you are not paying $30 per person per network. :-)
>    
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com>
> To: "DBA Tech" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 2:48:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] List
>
> Yes I too have been trying to replace logmein with free and  better.
> On Mar 1, 2016 14:35, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
>

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John W. Colby