Re: [pfSense] Forwarding an external port according to user

2011-10-24 Thread David Brown
On 24/10/2011 13:57, Vassilis V. wrote: Hello David! You seem to be very over complicating things :) If I understand you correctly, you want to have your users authenticate themselves in order to have limited access to the work network and offer them certain services there. You already

Re: [pfSense] Forwarding an external port according to user

2011-10-24 Thread David Brown
On 24/10/2011 14:08, Jim Pingle wrote: It isn't quite all that easy. There is already an open ticket for that feature. http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/385 OK, thanks. I'm convinced that such a feature is technically possible, but I also appreciate that it would take a lot of work to

Re: [pfSense] Forwarding an external port according to user

2011-10-24 Thread Vassilis V.
David Brown wrote on 10/24/2011 02:34 PM: Using a VPN is certainly a possibility - our road warriors who use a laptop as a main computer use a VPN (OpenVPN), and I use a VPN from my home machine regularly to access everything in the network here. Where VPNs are the right solution, they are

Re: [pfSense] Forwarding an external port according to user

2011-10-24 Thread Daniel Davis
David, Whilst this is not as secure as a real VPN, you could possibly use something like OpenVPN ALS (Previously Adito). It is a remote access over SSL solution that allows your users to somewhat securely connect to work resources without needing to install a VPN client or open insecure ports