Greg Kettmann wrote:
>
> Very good, I like it.
>
> There's also another very big difference, from where I sit as a
> consultant. A Business to Business connection usually has
> higher demands on capacity and reliability and thus the customer
> is more willing to pay for it, and for support. The solutions
> to the desktop are usually not as mission critical or are being
> used to validate the technology and so a bit less critical and
> probably not as well funded.
Each can be equaly as critical, depending on the reasons that it is
deployed. For example, if a critical system goes down in the middle of
the night, and the VPN system is used by support people to fix the
problem, then the VPN becomes critical.
> So far the following vendor's or products have been mentioned:
> http://www.freeswan.org/
> http://www.compatible.com/ (Intraport)
> http://www.uac.com/
>
> With that in mind I need to qualify my original question. There
> are VPN servers and VPN clients. B2B generally implies two
> servers so compatibility is not an issue. On the Business to
> Desktop compatibility is an issue. Regardless of the server the
> question involves the client code. Aventail and Nortel
> Contivity are both nice productes but neither supports a Linux
> client (as far as I know). Also, it's usually pretty safe to
> say that any VPN server should have Windows client code.
>
> So, I have the following questions about the above products.
>
> I assume all of the above (I've looked through the sites but not
> extensively) are servers.
Yes.
> Do they have Windows and Linux clients?
I know that the IntraPort from Compatible does (I use it, and it works
great!) AFAIK, Free S/wan doesn't. I'm not sure about UAC's PN7.
> Are they software (which we install) or prebuilt products? (UAC
> and Intraport seem to be HW while freeswan seems to be software)
The servers are hardware (except for Free S/wan) and the clients are
software that you install on the remote system.
> How are these products supported? (I would assume freeswan is a
> newsgroup type of support while the other two, as hardware
> products, would have standard support offerings).
You are correct in your assumptions here.
Kenny
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