Re: Campus VPN Services

[Mark Poepping <poepping () CMU EDU>]

Since you had this setup in place, did you escape the recent rpc (or Nachi)
stuff?
Mark.

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> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Discussion Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of H. Morrow Long
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:41 PM
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> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Campus VPN Services
>
> We're also using brand 'C' VPN concentrators.
>
> We've had one production, plus one spare/test unit on our network
> since 2001 (we had the original units before they had the brand
> 'C' logo on them).  One of the main reasons that we put the first
> unit into production was to allow users to connect to disk shares
> after we put in the NetBIOS block (on Jan 1, 2001).  We'd had the
> unit up for testing for the last six months of 2000.  Now many
> use the unit to access computers which are on private networks
> and/or otherwise blocked from direct login from the Internet -- as
> well as the ability to use our email servers from their home or
> on the road connection without getting a 'relaying denied' error
> from our SMTP servers.
>
> Some users also use it for the ability to access IP address restricted
> on campus websites and similar resources (although they could also use
> an authenticated proxy service we provide for that instead).
>
> Recently the Medical School has purchased one (plus spare/test unit)
> and the independent plus hospital their own (which some of our
> doctors use so it 'falls back' to authenticate against our RADIUS
> servers also).
>
> We've had almost 250 users (clients) on the original production unit
> during the large snowstorm in the northeast in the winter of this year
> when a large number of employees apparently decided to work from home
> (telecommute).
>
> - H. Morrow Long, CISSP
>    Director - Information Security Office
>    Yale University, ITS
>
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