Meet OpenVPN By Hans-Cees Speel -- If your company has people on the road, such as sales or technical people, a VPN is a good method for letting them access data on the company network. Many different VPN solutions can be bought, but many are free. Here, I discuss only solutions you can set up without buying a commercial VPN product.
VPN is my latest stumbling block. I have mostly been experimenting with Smoothwall Express and OpenBSD but with no success. From what I gather, there is a very good chance that everything is done right on the server end, but its the native windows client that is giving me trouble.
OpenVPN is a little encouraging, and this article is definitely a keeper to help with experimenting, but I still lack a solution for networks with a VPN router already in place as I am not sure if they will do VPN Pass-through.
On the other hand, I suspect that this may be a non-issue since OpenVPN uses SSL tunnels. I will post my findings on this as soon as I get time to create a test environment.
12/15/04: Free VPN over SSL
Meet OpenVPN By Hans-Cees Speel -- If your company has people on the road, such as sales or technical people, a VPN is a good method for letting them access data on the company network. Many different VPN solutions can be bought, but many are free. Here, I discuss only solutions you can set up without buying a commercial VPN product.
VPN is my latest stumbling block. I have mostly been experimenting with Smoothwall Express and OpenBSD but with no success. From what I gather, there is a very good chance that everything is done right on the server end, but its the native windows client that is giving me trouble. OpenVPN is a little encouraging, and this article is definitely a keeper to help with experimenting, but I still lack a solution for networks with a VPN router already in place as I am not sure if they will do VPN Pass-through. On the other hand, I suspect that this may be a non-issue since OpenVPN uses SSL tunnels. I will post my findings on this as soon as I get time to create a test environment.