OT: Using secured connection. ssh or VPN appliance?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:24:39PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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).

I've heard of (and had) reliability problems with Linky's; they seemd
to have a life of about a year.  They're also a much higher profile
target for berferds.

> 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.

Hmmm...

Cheers,
-- jra
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