VPN Solutions

[rd at rd1.net (Ralph Durkee)]

I've used Astaro for smaller installs. It's more of a UTM. Uses  
openvpn on linux  Was easy to use for the non- techies.  Also works  
with IpSec but I went with the openvpn clients

-- Ralph

On Jan 11, 2010, at 7:12 AM, Karl Bailey <karlrobertbailey at googlemail.com 
> wrote:

> We currently have a cross site cluster SSL based VPN solution that  
> has reached the end of life, the vendor has told us we?d need to spe 
> nd ?25k+ to bring the solution up to scratch & give us a 100 user li 
> cense (we have 500 employees & found that during the current bad wea 
> ther in the UK the 100 users JUST covers us) ... It doesn?t do anyth 
> ing to special:
>
> AD integration.
> Authenticate on groups
> Security based on groups.
> We also carry out a level of host checking (ie: does the host have a  
> virus checker & is the virus DB up to date).
>
> It would also be good if it was cross site (ie: if one site goes  
> down the other site takes the load, we do this currently with DNS &  
> really low TTL?s then remove the dns record of the broken site)
>
> I?d like to replace this with something we can sick time into gettin 
> g right rather than spending the budget on hardware... I?m looking a 
> t openVPN ... Any other suggestions / bright ideas??
>
> Regards
> Karl
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