[nylug-talk] Clean Slate Remote Office Connectivity

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Marco Romeny wrote:

> I see your point, but that's also the same argument peeps have against
> most of what we are doing: "linux server? get with the times and get a
> real windows 2003 server". "apache? get real, there is IIS" "openoffice?
> stupid" etc. etc.
OpenVPN doesn't have any more features (other than ease of setup - there 
is no multivendor compatibility to worry about because there's only one 
vendor) vs IPSEC.

> I not for us, pushing new solutions that we feel solves our problems
> with more of an ease, many of todays advancement would never have
> happened.
That is very true. I shouldn't be so harsh on the Linux solutions. Right 
tool for the right job. There could be situations where openvpn is the 
most appropriate solution. However, I don't think this is one.