Re: Campus VPN Services

[Mike Iglesias <iglesias () DRACO ACS UCI EDU>]

> We're looking at brand C also, largely following Mike's lead at UCI.  So
> far things are working out fairly well (although we've had a few issues
> installing the client on ancient windows laptops).  One annoying thing is
> that the brand C VPN concentrator doesn't use the same OS as brand C's
> other products (like their routers for example).  The CLI on the
> concentrator is a bit clunky, too, and the documentation is way below
> brand C's usually high standards.

The concentrator GUI is much easier to use, and works with browsers other
than IE (I use Mozilla on a Linux system).  I agree, the documentation
could use some work.

> I know that brand C makes VPN modules for their routers, which can be
> configured to provide services for the same clients as the concentrator.
> Has anyone had experiences with this?  According to our brand C rep, the
> performance specs on the router modules is actually higher than that of
> the concentrator, but I don't think we'll have many more than a couple
> hundred sessions at a time.  Since we have the concentrator working, we
> might just stick with that, but it would be nice to be able to configure a
> VPN using a more standard brand C OS.

I've setup one point-to-point VPN tunnel on a 830 series router.  The
concentrator GUI is much easier to use.


Mike Iglesias                          Email:       iglesias () draco acs uci edu
University of California, Irvine       phone:       949-824-6926
Network & Academic Computing Services  FAX:         949-824-2069

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