On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Cameron <[email protected]> wrote:
> We don't have very many users that access the company via VPN (about 30 all
> told) and usually no more than 5 at a time.

  We use OpenVPN.  It's been maintenance-free once we got it working.

  Pros: Secure; stable; "free"; Open Source; good logging;
cross-platform (native Windows/Mac/*nix; third-party Android, Java,
maybe others); performance is fine on modern hardware; anyone with
enough clue can support it.

  Cons: Need to bring your own hardware; no point-and-drool GUI;
requires knowledge of PKI to get it configured (and X.509 PKI can be
quite hairy); some organizations are allergic to Open Source; support
is less structured since it's anyone's game.

  As is common these days, a commercial entity has formed to provide a
"retail packaged" version with more management and paid support "from
the source"; no idea how good/bad that might be.

  http://openvpn.net/

-- Ben

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

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