Re: More VPN info

["nate" <redhat aphroland org>]

Dick St.Peters said:

> There may be times when recommending vendor VPN solutions is
> appropriate, but in my opinion this is not one of them.

I agree. the original poster seemed to have very simple requirements.

IPSec(IMO) over complicates things a great deal. It's a good technology,
just too rigid for my tastes. And if it's too rigid, if I cannot
adapt it into my network the way I want then it won't get used. That
said, at my last company we did deploy IPSec gateways but the only
reason we did this was for the win32 users. IPSec/PPTP seemed to
be the only modern(e.g. can run on newer versions of win32) VPN
solutions at the time, so we didn't have a lot of choice as far as
protocols go.

luckily the unix and linux world(moreso in linux) there is still
a wide range of VPN options available.

nate