On 7/8/08, Bill Marquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> With OpenVPN, you only have control of the client at time of install.
>  With the "clientless" solutions from Juniper, F5, et al, they usually
>  have the ability to check the security of the environment they're
>  running in, in some manner (antivirus running, up to date patches,
>  firewall, etc).  They can then grant or deny access based on that
>  security - with OpenVPN, if the credentials are good, you get in.  I
>  won't argue the points as to which is better, or whether you should
>  even have remote access to your network, just wanted to point out some
>  missing information in your argument.
>

Yeah none of the VPN options in pfSense currently offer any client
side policy enforcement (patches accepted). Whether or not that's a
concern depends on your environment. Personally, almost all the VPN
deployments I've seen that have this capability do not use it for
various reasons.

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