[139858] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VPN over slow Internet connections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Apr 21 13:59:30 2011
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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:58:59 -0400
To: Gary Gladney <gladney@stsci.edu>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Gary Gladney <gladney@stsci.edu> wrote:
> If you haven't deployed your VPN environment yet I would seriously
>consider using SSL VPN instead of IPSec as your tunneling protocol.
> =A0SSL VPN gives you a lot more options than IPSec.
Hi Gary,
Ben was looking at OpenVPN, not IPSec.. He seems to have a field
application he wants to talk directly to his SQL server. An SSL VPN
that does such a good job protecting interior web services, sometimes
also called a Web VPN or a clientless VPN, may not be on the table.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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