Slashdot Mirror
Are the VPN Alternatives Enterprise Ready?
steve asks: "There has been some talk about the newer alternative to true VPN lately. Are products like Netilla or Neoteris enough to replace the typical 'extranet'. most are based on simple SSL technology and somewhat limited in what applications you can run or use them for but they do give a simple web based interface. Has anyone out there played with any of these? Are they truly worth a look yet? Would you be concerned about potential browser issues (security or otherwise) creating a back door on your nice firewall?"
Great info on using Windows 2000/XP with FreeS/WAN here: http://vpn.ebootis.de/.
We've been using a Win2K server as our VPN server up til now. It works well enough for the 3 to 4 people who use it regularly, plus my boss and myself. We've had some problems with DNS though. Sometimes when someone VPNs in it causes the server to resolve to the VPN client's IP, even though the DNS server is configured otherwise. Go figure...
We have successfully used mpd on FreeBSD to connect our Windows 2000/98 machines and it has worked flawlessly. We use this for our vendors to support there products and we haven't heard a problem about it. I have tried this with Windows and I could never successfully set it without problems.
Or use Cipe. It comes with Redhat 7.X already and it has a WindowsNT/2000 client. Works like a charm and guess what, it is NATable. No fiddling with firewals. Try that with Ipsec, folks.
/Pedro
CIPE isn't bridegable, even though they say it works on their site.
In the mailing lists, it is revealed that no, it doesn't actually work with bridging.
I wasted so many hours trying to get f*cking CIPE to work before switching to VTun...If you don't need bridging though, yeah it works well.