[Eug-lug] Looking for suggestions on VPN software

[Quentin Hartman]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Jason Dommasch <jdommaroma at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> At the last meeting, I think Larry suggested a particular brand of VPN
> software.  It might have been OpenVPN, but I can't remember for sure.
> I'm posting this to the list to get other people's ideas on VPNs as
> well.
>
> I'm mostly wondering if this is appropriate for remotely connecting
> into a small office network with either a Windows or Linux laptop (I
> don't need office to office).  Also want to know the effort involved
> in setting it up.
>

I'm in the middle of ripping a really crappy unreliable Watchguard VPN
"solution" out of my office and replacing it with an OpenVPN - based one.
Specifically, I'm running an "appliance" distro called Untangle. It's really
really nice, unless you have reptty weird needs, I can't recommend it
enough. It's easy to install and easy to manage. The really nice part is
that it automagically creates custom installers for OpenVPN for Windows
users, making deploying VPN Clients to users pretty brainless. The config
files and keys it creates and distributes are perfectly usable with OpenVPN
on Linux (I use it via the Network Manager OpenVPN plugin) and I have no
reason to think they  would not work with one of the OSX OpenVPN clients.

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-Regards-

-Quentin Hartman-
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