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VPN Solutions for Small/Medium Businesses?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-network-in-a-network dept.

artbeall asks: "I work for a small company and we are looking at various commercial VPN solutions, however many seem to be too expensive for us. I am interested in what solutions other small/medium size companies are using for their VPN. Of course, we want a SECURE system that is compatible with common network gear like Cisco as well as being able to run the VPN client on Linux, Solaris, and Windows. Does anyone have suggestions or ideas?"

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  1. Cisco VPN 3000 by anderiv · · Score: 5, Informative

    At work (~90 employees...I guess that would qualify as medium-sized??) we use a Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator. It's been rock-solid for us for two years now, and I'd highly recommend it. If you want to go the VPN-client route, cisco has official clients for Mac, Windows and Linux, but the box is also compatible with the PPTP vpn clients that come with most modern operating systems and it's also fully IPsec compatible. So...for example, if you wanted to, you could set up a linux gateway at home that would connect to your work VPN and establish a LANLAN VPN link.

    If this proves to be too expensive, you ought to look ag OpenVPN. It's quite stable at this point, and they have clients for Windows, Mac and Linux as well. You'll have to have some amount of knowledge of linux networking/firewalling to get it set up right, but there's plenty of documentation out there to guide you.