Are the VPN Alternatives Enterprise Ready?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday April 3, 2002 @03:38AM from the waiting-for-maturity dept.

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?"

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Useful Windows/Linux VPN link by kableh · 2002-04-03 06:36 · Score: 3, Informative

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...