[VPN] Re: FW: VPN

[Ken's Work Laptop]

> I'm wondering how solutions like these offer benefit over the tradional 
> VPN
> approach. Assuming a dispreference for IPsec due to its complexity, what
> about something much lighter weight such as OpenVPN? Per above named 
> points:
>
> 1. You (the company/administrator/IT staff) run and administer your 
> OpenVPN
> server.
>
> 2. Assuming you also control your own firewall, you can simply allow
> connections through for the single port number or range of ports you use 
> for
> OpenVPN.
>
> 3. OpenVPN is of course Open Source too.
>
> To boot, use of this kind of VPN solution provides transparent access to 
> the
> LAN or portions thereof as determined by your intentions, making
> authenticated/connected clients virtually an extension of the LAN; no
> per-application bit about it.
>
> DS

Those are very good points.  I was not aware of an Open Source software VPN 
product available.  I was sure there had to be something out there, but I 
have just never heard it mentioned until now.  I guess I can just google 
OpenVPN and find out more info about it?  Since it's open source, are there 
multiple-OS versions available (Windows, Linux, etc?)

Undrhil