I was looking at OpenVPN, but it looks to me like it won't work in our 
environment. We have multiple subnets on our internal network, and it looks 
like the OpenVPN client needs admin rights on the endpoint to update routes. 
Our users don't have admin rights and that's not something I'm looking to 
change. Have you found a workaround for this or is it not an issue in your 
environment?


...Tim


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Favorite VPN solution?

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> The clients work fine, but I'm wondering if there are other solutions 
> out there.

  We're using OpenVPN because (1) it's based on extremely well-tested code, (2) 
it's light-weight, and (3) it's free.

  The main UI is extremely limited.  Basically an on/off indication.
That can be disconcerting to users.  OTOH, the log is quite detailed and useful.

  It provides no PKI management infrastructure of its own.  We use OpenSSL.  
I'm told Windows Certificate Services also work.

  OpenVPN has nothing in the way of sophisticated management facilities.  Just 
text config files and text log files.  We only have one site/policy/config, so 
it's no problem for us, but in a larger environment with many differing 
policies that could get burdensome.

> Thoughts?  Anyone using clientless VPN with a PIX?

  "clientless" VPNs just mean they dynamically install/run the client via a 
Java applet/ActiveX control.

  Deciding whether or not this is a good idea is left as an exercise to the 
reader, but I note that allowing such things in general is a common security 
problem.

-- Ben

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