Re: VPNs

["Davis, Thomas R." <tdavis () INDIANA EDU>]

The devices are actually managed by the telecom group, so I'd have to
check with them before giving a definitive answer on any technically
oriented costs that weren't planned for.  But, I doubt that there have
been an inordinate amount or I would have heard by now.  :-)

Our support organization has done a really good job of documenting VPN
client issues in their on-line knowledge base support tool.  The major
support issue has been the availability of PPTP clients for non-Windows
(i.e., Mac and Linux) workstations.  For Mac OS X, they've been
recommending NTS TunnelBuilder.  For Linux, they've been recommending a
PPTP client[2] from sourceforge.

 [1] http://www.efficient.com/tunnelbuilder.html
 [2] http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/

-- 
Tom Davis, Information Technology Security Officer, CISSP
Office of the VP for Information Technology, Indiana University
For PGP Key: https://www.itso.iu.edu/staff/tdavis 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Dobbins [mailto:dobbins () ND EDU] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 1:59 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] VPNs


Have you run into any unusual costs, or other surprise support loads,
from deployment of VPN client-ware (even if just config'ing Windows
internal PPTP client) to student machines?

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