[SoCoSA/discuss] VPN networks

[Andrew Fife]

Walter:

I'm obviously a little bit biased because I work for Untangle.  But I
think you will find that our implementation of OpenVPN is extremely easy
to setup and use.  And of course it's free and open source under the
GPLv2.  

You've got a couple of different options to consider:

PPTP: comes standard on most Windows boxes but uses 40 bit encryption that
is trivial to crack

IPsec: is secure but is difficult to install behind firewalls and also
requires client software on each system

SSL-VPN: is secure and has excellent NAT traversal, OpenVPN is a F/OSS
implementation of this

Clientless: Browser based SSLVPN that is great for mobile users but not as
good for site-to-site connections.  Not many F/OSS implementations that I
am aware of and tends to be expensive from proprietary vendors.  

More on Untangle's OpenVPN module with screenshots here:  

http://www.untangle.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=72&Itemi
d=146

-Andrew

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-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Hansen [mailto:gandalf at sonic.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2:34 PM
To: discuss at socosa.org
Subject: [SoCoSA/discuss] VPN networks

I'm wondering about remote connection of win boxes to a simple windows
network where the main server is linux running samba. I know that our
netgear routers support VPN connections in some manner, but I'm not
exactly sure what it is that I want so I can try to find it.
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