[KLUG Members] OpenVPN

[Adam Williams]

> Looking at OpenVPN I see that Win32 is not supported until the 1.5
> release.  However, the latest _stable_ release is 1.4.3.
> Question:  Can a windows client running 1.5-beta connect to a Linux
> server running 1.4.3?  

Yes.  1.5 mostly just adds the ability to run over TCP rather than UDP. 
You only want to do that if UDP won't work for some reason (really
antique firewall, etc...) since UDP is alot faster for VPN connections
(encapusalting TCP in TCP is bad!).

> Or does the Linux server also have to be running a 1.5-beta release?

Nope, but I am running the 1.5-beta everywhere.