Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3156 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hans Witvliet wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 23:10 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > On Sunday 23 December 2007 22:43:24 Hans Witvliet wrote:
> > > If you are not in control of your network, use openswan or strongswan
> > > for vpn, and put nfs-v3 over it. We have been using it in a test for
> > > connecting several locations. Works ok.
> > huh? You're connecting each client to the server using vpn on the *local LAN*?
> >
> > That doesn't sound like a very good configuration
> >
> > nfs4 + kerberos gives authentication and encryption and requires very little 
> > in the way of configuration. No offense, but VPN on a local LAN is just silly
>
> Well, at my work they're rather paranoid.
> For some, we have to tunnel internet through the corporate network,
> For others, we tunnel our corporate network with voip over public
> networks.
>
> Indeed, sounds odd, it is odd, but true.

That's standard practice in up-to-date IT departments.

> NFS4 is still on my "to investigate" list

It's not a big deal.


--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx