A Question

[Jon Carnes]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Jesse Ennamorato" <ajennamo at uncc.edu>
To: <VPN at SECURITYFOCUS.COM>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 1:11 PM
Subject: A Question


> Have a question for anyone that has "road warriors" or mobile/remote users
that
> connect (via a VPN) to their internal network. What are typical solutions
for
> these types of users?
>
> i.e. What protocols are you using? (IPSec, PPTP, etc). I'm thinking most
would
> be IPSec.
>
> Also, what types of platforms (Win2k/NT/98)? Also, are these users
normally
> connecting to a hardware-type VPN, or more like a RAS/PPTP server? How
common is
> a solution like Aventail or other proprietary VPN software systems?
>
We use PPTP attaching either to an NT server running RAS or a Linux server
running PoPToP

All our Road Warriors run a variant of Windows on their Laptops.  We have
little over 100 folks on the road.

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