Amazon's EC2 service

[Ben Scott]

On 8/24/06, Jeff Macdonald <macfisherman at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I'm very rusty on Networking, but would there be a way to have
> dynamically assigned IPs that this service essentially does for its hosts
> and have it go through some VPN like network and present a different IP?

  Well, I know nothing about their setup, but they claim you have full
"root" access to the systems.  So you would then be able to load some
VPN software and create a private network, and you could then assigned
static addresses to the VPN interfaces.  So while eth0 might not have
a static address, tun0 might always have 10.0.0.42 or whatever.

> I'm thinking VPN from these EC2 hosts to some sort of router hosted somewhere
> else.

  For the VPN to be useful, I would assume there would have to be a
VPN node outside the EC2 instances, with a static address.  That node
would act as the hub of the VPN -- each EC2 instance connecting to it.

  You can do this with OpenVPN for sure.  Probably IPsec too, since
IPsec does damn near everything (but work), but I've forgotten a lot
about IPsec now that I've found OpenVPN.

-- Ben