[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>I'm searching a VPN solution for Mac too and i found these products but i
>did'nt test yet.
>
>VPN Client for Mac :
>PGP Desktop from pgp, a division on NAI
>(http://www.pgp.com/products/corporate-desktop/default.asp)
>Ravlin Soft from Red Creek
>(http://www.redcreek.com/products/ravlin_soft.html)
>
>Bye
Well, PGP works, mostly(won't work if the client is behind a NAT, which
means home users with some sort of NATing firewall appliance such as
Apple's Airport are SOL), but it's classic MacOS only, and also has a
somewhat shaky future at the moment-with Network Associates selling off
the line there's no telling what's going to happen. For the record, the
following page has excellent info on using the PGP mac client with an
OpenBSD gateway, which I was able to setup and test:
http://www.allard.nu/openbsd/
It won't work with a GB firewall though, unless you have the OBSD box
setup as your default gateway on whatever NAT'd machine you're connecting
to over the VPN, which of course is a rather odd network topology. But if
you're a small timer using OBSD as a firewall, it could be a solution. The
lack of client side NAT support pretty much toasts it for a real
enterprise setting though.
The RedCreek thing looks like some sort of hardware doodad. I've got a
call into their sales guys to find out more, but if it truly is some sort
of HW device, it should work w/OSX, which is my main concern. HW tends to
get expensive though, so we shall see. Anyway, that gives me 2 options now
for X (cisco and redcreek) with a possible third in Nortel.
Meanwhile, I guess I'll hove to dork around w/racoon and see if I can hack
it in to our GB Flash. I was really hoping somebody else had already done
the legwork for me, oh well... :-/
Regards,
Ed Hintz
Network Systems Administrator
Natus Medical, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
