[SoCoSA/discuss] OpenVPN? Or...?

[Steve S.]

On 5/18/06, Trevor Benson <tBenson at a-1networks.com> wrote:

> > Is there a reason NOT to bring up WINS & join the domain after setting
> > up the tunnel?  Getting DHCP to assign an IP, etc?
> >
>
> Well my point is most protocols outside of PPTP and L2TP have no
> mechanism to pass off DNS or WINS for the local domain to the client,
> so your stuck with writing scripts, or having users change their own
> settings after establishing a tunnel.

Well, I've obviously got more research I need to do, but:
   http://openvpn.net/testimonials.html
strongly implies that they have "automagical" handling of this stuff, e.g.:
   "... I want my remote vpn clients to be on the same subnet
    as the office-bound clients for myriad reasons. I did not like
    having to manually configure IP addresses for each client,
    so I elected to use a dhcp server to serve my remote clients
    an IP address through the openVPN tunnel."
&
   "... handled it perfectly and reestablished the connection
   with the new ip address automatically..."
&c...


- Steve S.
  ... Off to do more studying...