VPN over slow Internet connections

William Herrin bill at herrin.us
Thu Apr 21 17:58:59 UTC 2011


On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Gary Gladney <gladney at 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.
>  SSL 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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