I have never really had any issues with openvpn, it has always worked, the only time I had issues was when a) I was working happily on my home pc dialled in from eslewhere and mum's cooking flipped the trip off at home, and I had not set my motherboard to auto-restart on power loss, and b) once when I did a format reload I forgot to set my home pc to a static IP address instead of DHCP and spent hours looking at OpenVPN settings before I realised it was just me being a plank.
I must admit though, if you are new to VPNs, each solution can be a bit of a pig to understand and configure (and test!!) if its your first exposure, but generally OpenVPN has been as good as gold, and the PKI solution bundled within the OpenVPN package, EasyRSA is pretty straightforward to use, if you know your onions with regard to PKI. Personally I have always regarded VPNs as the sort of security that costs you more in day to day problems than it saves you in the infinitesimal chance of somebody with enough clue, motivation and time trying to intercept what is probably trivial data :-) Thats True, but at least they stop Joe Blunder from stumbling across your data in the way that guys like that seem to do, if you want the added security, without the costs, use an opensource VPN solution, they arent expensive, and just as secure as "bought and paid for" solutions - although I am sure this might spark off a whole new debate, I personally have never felt unsecured using OpenVPN.
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