Hi guys, any idea if what mentioned in the title can be done?

Thanks

Hey there Elvis,

As we were passing back and forth in PM, the only real way I can see to easily provide failover is to go with a host that can put your VPN server on a SAN. The VPS, with the SAN backing it, can be told to spin up again if the node it's one goes down.

PPTP is fairly straight forward to work with, but if you're still quite green to linux i'd recommend just getting a win2k3 box or something of the sort and using that. Then again, i'm not sure if those support IPv6.

Francisco

Many thanks Fran!
Not that I had become a linux guru or something and not in a couple of days but I have found a pretty straightforward tutorial which covers everything except failover.
Do you think I should really care about it?

many thanks

can u post the link to the tutorial. i like to setup this too

which os are you willing to use?

i want to use linux

this is supossed to be a pretty straight forward guide ( open vpn and centos)

http://www.throx.net/2008/04/13/openvpn-and-centos-5-installation-and-configuration-guide/

Elvis1,

Once you're wanting to get into the high availability market for a VPS, you best be willing to plop some cash down for sure. You could look at a cloud solution, but most are fairly expensive for extra BW.

Another option that would provide a 'poor mans solution' would be to just have a few VPS's and just using 'round robin DNS' to point them to an end point.

If the OpenVPN/PPTP certs are the exact same on both locations, the user would get connected no sweat. If a node suddenly goes out they can reconnect and hoepfully get a working one. On the DNS side of things, there would be ways of updating what end-points are online pretty easily.

Francisco

this is supossed to be a pretty straight forward guide ( open vpn and centos)

http://www.throx.net/2008/04/13/openvpn-and-centos-5-installation-and-configuration-guide/

The only thing is that would require using an openvpn client - it is not pptp based.

Round robin DNS could work decently, in fact you could even use GeoDNS to point people to the closest VPN server automatically.

is there a webbased gui i can use to change setting in openvpn server ? and to add users to it

is there a webbased gui i can use to change setting in openvpn server ? and to add users to it

http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/graphical-user-interface.html

many thanks. how about pptp? I've been recommended to use vyatta. Does someone have any experience with it?

thanks