Richard Forth wrote:
I was also going to suggest OpenVPN, and what about a SmoothWall box as
a firewall? Smoothwall is also on the December 2007 issue of LXF (was
out in November).
Never used Smoothwall but it looks pretty cool from the article. if that
helps. Open VPN is so easy to use, even I can use it, so it must be
easy!! Never used Open VPN on a Linux machine yet though...
The OpenSource option has several good looking solutions.
http://www.untangle.com/ was another.
The hardware cost and development time may be working against it though,
as for less than £250 it looks like hardware VPN router solutions will
do the job.
Personally I have always regarded VPNs as the sort of security that
costs you more in day to day problems than it saves you in the
infinitesimal chance of somebody with enough clue, motivation and time
trying to intercept what is probably trivial data :-)
So I'm reading router manuals now, though to be honest the windows
client and client end router issues may be where the problems arise.
Phil
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