Ok, so what is the real difference between Bluesocket and a VPN
concentrator? They seem to perform the same function. Why would I use
Bluesocket vs. VPN?
Brad
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Bradford B. Saul
Lead Network Engineer
IT - Network Engineering
Hoffman Hall Room 10, MSC 1401
James
A vpn concentrator is exactly that, device that terminates vpn
tunnels. The blue socket wireless gateway does much more than that. We
use ours to ensure that no one gets anywhere past the edges of the wireless
lan without a valid university account to authenticate at the box. Users
can choose to
Our setup:
AP - VPN Concentrator - RADIUS - LDAP
All AP's are on a Layer 2 only VLAN with the VPN as the only way out. We
have full RADIUS accounting which tracks addresses, starts, stops, data
rates. We are only allowing IP through the VPN, so that takes care of
protocols. Only users with
a few differences:
-bandwidth rate limiting (per user, per port), can your VPN do that?
-enable MAC address authentication for devices
that do not have a VPN client (WIFI phones,...) more are coming these
days.
-How do you distribute the VPN client before
they can join the VPN concentrator?
Some differences:
* Bluesocket uses web-based interface for authentication, which makes
support of PDA or other non-prevailing OSs possible/easier. As I know,
lots of VPN solutions require client software. Usually they just don't
support PalmOS, WindowCE or MAC or Linux. etc
* Bluesocket gives
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:13:04AM -0400, Philippe Hanset wrote:
a few differences:
-bandwidth rate limiting (per user, per port), can your VPN do that?
A Linux or *BSD based VPN system could do that, if configured properly.
OpenBSD is probably the best bet.
-enable MAC address
