Yeah, that was one nice thing about the iPhone/iPad....the built-in VPN client
would work with our IPSEC VPN.
A while back we were under pressure by an application system admin group to
setup an open ssh server that would have access to everything in the
datacenter. Because one of the ASAs had gotten an android phone...which
didn't support our particular VPN.
Everybody kept saying just get him an iPhone, if its so important for him to
work that way. Though I don't recall if anybody said if there was iPhone
service where he worked, most people don't know that he lives out of state
('cause wife wanted to move back) and he only pops in for the meetings he
can't get away with being the only one not in the room. One of our admins
wanted to do that.....he had gone through all the work of getting fiancee
visa, but once she got here...she didn't like it.... We paid for him to go to
training in Chicago, where he went to a job interview during lunch one
day...and came back to give us 2 weeks notice.... it helped make it hard to
get them to finally pay for me to get the training instead. Sometimes I
forget that I'm not the only person that admins the F5....though I'm the only
one that deals with anything less than simple....particularly SSL and iRules.
Couldn't understand why one group kept asking us when we would get the new F5
going (though we had it so long that when we went to turn it on, and one of
the units didn't....it was past the point we could activate support for it,
and it was out of warranty). But former manager had kept telling groups that
we couldn't do SSL on the old F5. But, it was more that she didn't have any
training on it.... Though there's lots of stuff on the F5 that I've figured
out with help from ask.f5.com and devcentral.f5.com....
I keep meaning to see if I can get my laptop and android devices to connect to
new SSL VPN.
We all ssh to our desktops...so we usually only use VPN when somebody says
they can't get in that way, and we need to see for ourselves.
On 5/15/2011 9:12 AM, Matthew Barr wrote:
> On May 13, 2011, at 11:40 PM, Derek J. Balling wrote:
>> On May 13, 2011, at 11:34 PM, Tom Perrine wrote:
>>
>> The built-in VPN client, plus "Prompt" (an awesome SSH client), and I can
>> effectively work on pretty much any of our systems from my iPad.
> I'm going to +1 this- i just got the VPN client working on my original ipad
> 3g, and with prompt, or one of the RDP clients, it's able to serve as a real
> system tool. Good enough for the call in the middle of the day, while
> you're out & about on a sunday, no where near your computer, to check a
> cluster that should have started working at noon...
>
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