[nylug-talk] Clean Slate Remote Office Connectivity

[Eric]

alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> 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

I dont know why you refer to OpenVPN as a "ghetto fabulous" solution.
It's not some ssh/netfilter hack.  It is a robust solution that works,
and works well across many platforms.

IPSEC is a notoriously finicky beast with many different implementations
that would be more complex to support after you are gone or fired.

Have you ever even used OpenVPN alex?

-Eric