[plug] VPNs

[chris]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 18:25, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Cameron Patrick wrote:
> 
> > While I'm tempted to drag out my "Open VPN is nice" form letter, I
> > wouldn't really recommend it in this situation (where there are many
> > clients connecting to one fixed server).  UWA use a PPTP-based VPN for
> > making wireless access vaguely secure.  The server runs on Linux,
> > there are Linux clients around, and I believe the configuration needed
> > for modern versions of Windows to be used as a client is next to
> > trivial.
> 
> I think it's worth considering that using a full IP VPN if all you need 
> is (possibly read-only) access to some files may be overkill

Craig,

I seem to remember you talking about using IPv6 for a VPN. What is the
advantage of this again and what does it involve?

thanks,

Chris Caston