[K12OSN] OT multiple campuses

[Ben Nickell]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 20:26, Ben Nickell wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ideally I'd like to make it look the same in both buildings since the
>>kids will be using computers in both building, if that is not possible,
> 
> 
> You might get by with mounting home directories but I think you
> really want more bandwidth for that - and probably something more
> reliable.
> 
> Or something like unison: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
> might work.
> 
> 
>>Maybe the sftp://otherserver would work for some of the more technical
>>teachers and kids. 
> 
> 
>>I haven't done the openvpn or ipsec tunnel before, but thought about
>>looking into that.  Would that allow me to tunnel multiple services
>>through the same tunnel?  
> 
> 
> Yes, you make what looks like a direct connection between the
> servers and route the private LAN addresses through it.  It looks
> like any other route as far as everything else is concerned, the
> packets going over the internet are encrypted, and you can firewall
> everything else.
> 


Which VPN tunneling software do you think is easier to understand?  Does 
anyone know of any good resources and/or docs?  I'll google for it later 
on today, but right now I'm heading out to make some sense of the wiring 
closet and move computers and setup a server now.

Thanks,
Ben