[nylug-talk] Clean Slate Remote Office Connectivity

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, H. G. wrote:

> On 4/20/07, Marco Romeny <marco.romeny at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I second openvpn. Not only good for this kind of setup, it's actually
> > pretty easy to do roadwarrior configurations without static
> > ip-addresses.
> >
> > But I think getting enough bandwidth is the biggest issue as
> > always....
> 
> Heres a third vote for OpenVPN.  It might be your cheapest option, if
> you already have a Linux or BSD box as your office's gateway. By
> installing OpenVPN, you won't have to splurge for an appliance or
> something in that vein.
F openvpn.

Get with the times, and run proper ipsec and windows ipsec clients.

there are times when the ghetto fabulous solutions you would want at home 
make no sense in a corporate environment, which has to be supported even 
after you quit or are fired.

-alex