Re: SSL VPN Question

[Kevin Wilcox <wilcoxkm () APPSTATE EDU>]

On 5 March 2010 16:47, Jay Graham <jwg+ () pitt edu> wrote:

> We use the SSL VPN to allow web access to our library journals and now the
> users just can't copy and paste URLs of these journals in e-mail messages
> since the URL is different depending if you are on campus versus off campus.
> (i.e. through the VPN tunnel).

Jay - can you provide a little detail about this? Not specific URLs,
of course, but I'm curious why the URL for off-campus users coming
through the VPN have to be different from the URLs you provide
on-campus. We use OpenVPN and once you connect, all traffic for the
University is routed over a virtual interface - you're effectively on
the Appalachian network. You can ssh, sftp, browse, telnet or use any
client/server application to or with any machine you are authorised to
access via our network registration system. For instance, I can
connect via the VPN with one of my FreeBSD installs and ssh to an Unix
machine in my office or RDP to my Windows workstation (but no one
else's), or I can have a local OSSEC client report to my department's
OSSEC server. Is this functionality not supported by the Juniper?

kmw

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Appalachian State University
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