[ale] Firewall/VPN solutions

[Steve Tynor]

I can second OpenVPN -- we used it on our IPCop firewall.  All of our 
client machines are currently Windows, so I can't speak to Linux or OS/X 
support,  but the Windows client is dead simple and it "just works".

Steve

On 3/27/2007 2:26 AM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 08:42 -0400, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
>> I'm looking for some suggestions on a turn-key firewall/vpn solution
>> that provides multi-OS client support. I used to consider Sonicwall in
>> that category but their recent versions only support Windows with limit
>> Mac and absolutely zero Linux support. I'm fairly certain Cisco can
>> support all three but looking for all possible solutions I might have
>> overlooked.
> 
> I am not sure if this will help you at all, but I have been looking for 
> a VPN solution for something I want to do, and it seems that OpenVPN 
> would serve my needs quite well; it provides a full VPN setup that is 
> relatively easy to configure (GNOME can configure the client side 
> automatically), and it uses the well-known and trusted SSL mechanism for 
> protecting the tunnel itself.  The server uses a configuration file, and 
> there are several options for making it work--ranging from using PAM to 
> authenticate to full client-side SSL certificates that authenticate to 
> the VPN server.
> 
> I am only testing it so far myself, but it seems to be the only solution 
> that would work for what I am doing, other than perhaps an SSH VPN--but 
> I'm not so sure on that one.  It would likely work, but I think I would 
> have to code a lot more for it, and OpenVPN is available as a package, 
> just like the SSH server is (at least on Ubuntu).
> 
>     ? Mike
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