Re: VPN Research

[Kevin Wilcox <wilcoxkm () APPSTATE EDU>]

On 24 May 2010 10:58, Lynn Latimer <llatimer () uga edu> wrote:

> 1) What type of VPN are you using:  ipSEC VPN, SSN VPN, or other?

SSL VPN

> 2) What brand of VPN is it?

OpenVPN, run it on whatever hardware you like

> 3) How many users do you have on the VPN?

Approximately 100 staff/faculty, less than 20 concurrent, plus
approximately 30 vendor accounts (point-to-point and road-warrior
style)

> 4) What is the general satisfaction with the VPN product.

I love it. I can connect from my Macbook, my Windows machines and my
management machines that run various flavours of BSD. Windows 7/Vista
were sore points because it took a while for a client to be released.
Since it relies on a "correct" network setup, don't be surprised when
your off-campus users get certificate errors trying to send mail via
load-balanced IMAP when certificates/names don't match up (some
testing with Juniper devices has shown they modify the hosts file to
compensate for this).

kmw

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Kevin Wilcox
Network Infrastructure and Control Systems
Appalachian State University
Email: wilcoxkm () appstate edu
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