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Re: Campus VPN Services
From: "H. Morrow Long" <morrow.long () YALE EDU>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:41:22 -0400
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 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.
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