How did you route multicast over the L2TP connection to the OS X server? I did'nt think OS X server had that capability (Forwarding muilticast through L2TP).
-Doug On 10/30/06 4:56 PM, "Many Ayromlou" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Doug, > > A while back I tried OpenVPN (mac client @ home behind NAT/Router--- >> linux server on open network) and although other stuff worked, I > could not get AG going (I was not using bridged mode though.....I was > using the other mode.....don't remember right now). > > I have since tried to run it with an L2TP type VPN (Mac notebook > running osx behind NAT/Router --> Mac OSX Server on open network) and > AG3 works quite well. I've been able to get somewhere near 14-16 > videos smoking my 6Mb dsl link. I've also tried this from behind a > firewall at work (mac notebook behind a really strict firewall > blocking ports 1024+ UDP/TCP ---> same mac OSX server on open > network) and AG3 works fine. > > So to answer your question OpenVPN did not work for me and I admit it > was not the same situation you're describing. L2TP worked fine behind > NAT and also behind a pretty strict firewall. > > TTYL > Many > On 30-Oct-06, at 1:35 PM, Doug Baggett wrote: > >> Has anybody tried using Access Grid using bridged Ethernet and >> OpenVPN? >> (www.openvpn.net) >> >> OpenVPN supports TCP instead of UDP, and I have users behind >> Firewalls that >> restrict outbound UDP and I have a server that I could use as the >> endpoint >> that sits >> >> I know there would be a performance hit using TCP, but on a high >> performance >> network it would be interesting to know if anybody has given it a try. >> >> -Doug B >> OCI/NSF >>
