[SoCoSA/discuss] VPN networks

[Walter Hansen]

Oh, don't get me wrong, untangle sounds great and I will be looking into
it and think a presentation on it would benefit the group. It's just it
may be overkill in our situation as we currently have systems doing all of
what we want except for the VPN thing. Looking at untangle as a
replacement for all or some of these systems is interesting, but I see it
as a separate issue to the needed feature.

We currently have a debian server providing mysql database serving, apache
web serving and samba file serving as well as numerous automated tasks. In
addition we have another linux server in a high speed environment
providing email serving, web serving and other serving functions.

Implementing a new server and/or replacing systems on one of these servers
will need careful consideration. Adding and configuring a package to one
server does not need anywhere the level of planning, but can be tried out
to see if it fits.

Untangle looks very, very good. Would it work for us? Perhaps, but I'll
have to consider that carefully and do a lot of reading.

I'm primarily looking to attach remote windows computers to a internal
(safe) windows network via the internet.

I'm not really looking at creating a session on an individual windows
machine. We have software that we are currently doing this with, but are
considering replacing it with an appliance that integrates with our KVM
and would also get us consol remote access to our linux servers.
-- 
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interesting to do while you are alive." — Orochimaru (Naruto)

> I just wanted to point out (although you may have considered this), is
> that although Untangle has all of these great options, you don't have
> to use them all. According to their documentation, you can easily
> switch off whatever services you don't want to use.
>
> As far as the VPN is concerned, their system seems to make it
> extremely simple. Once you VPN into the Untangle server, you can just
> RDP (use rdesktop, or some similar program, if you are VPN-ing from a
> linux box and need to access a Windows system) to whatever windows box
> you need to connect to. It really should end up being a simple and
> secure system.
>
> Once I install Untangle, I'll probably use about half of the freeware
> they package in. Since I don't operate a domain with my business, I
> won't be utilizing any of the pay-for features. Since the product is
> free, I don't see it as being "too much", just untapped resources for
> future utilization once my network has grown.
>
> If you are interested in taking a collaborative test of this system,
> feel free to drop me a note outside of this list.
>
>
> Sean
>
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