[Info-vax] SSL VPNs

[Rich Jordan]

On Oct 27, 5:19 pm, "Richard Maher" <maher... at hotspamnotmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is anyone out there using SSL VPNs to secure remote client access to your
> VMS servers?
>
> If so are you using a Juniper network appliance (not cheap!), a HP offering,
> or something else?
>
> Cheers Richard Maher

We (the company, not me) have just started looking at the SonicWALL
"NetExtender" stuff as an alternative to the current IPSec VPNs for
remote hosts.  They bought out a company called "Aventail" a while
ago, but that makes up their high end; we're looking at the low end
capabilities.  I do not believe they can do the secondary (VPN box to
target) encryption; they only enable the tunnel between the remote
host and the VPN box itself using a small downloaded client module or
applet.  Supposedly MacOS X, Linux, and the wintel are all supported
as remote hosts.

I recently replaced a defunct Sonicwall Tele-2 antique at home with a
new TZ100 (current generation, bottom end) firewall; it has the
ability to provide one concurrent SSL tunnel for a remote host;
unfortunately I haven't had time to work with it at all yet.  I'm
interested in trying it out with the Mac on the other service at home.