OT: Using secured connection. ssh or VPN appliance?

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:50:50PM -0500, Lerebours, Jose wrote:
>>    Faced with this question, I wonder which would be
>>    more cost effective in the long run.  VPN appliances
>>    are not exactly cheap and they are limited to number
>>    of users and it involves the hassle of installing client
>>    side VPN software.
>
>The SnapGear VPN routers (which run Linux, internally), support PPTP as
>well as IPSEC, and start between $250 and $300.  We've been very happy
>with them, ourselves.

We have been using LinkSys BEVFP41 VPN routers for several years now with
good results.  They're generally under $150USD, easy to configure (although
they prefer Internet Exploder to other browsers usually Mozilla under Linux
works).

We're running FreeS/WAN on a SuSE 9.0 Professional box here that connects
to about a dozen of these LinkSys boxen at customer sites.

Bill
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