Re: (PM) VPN stuff (fwd)

Ing. Felipe Tribaldos (felipe@pty.com)
Mon, 17 Nov 1997 08:53:57 -0500

>Why do you need VPN from the terminal server? VPN should be provided
>end-point to end-point. Your customer should provided VPN (PPTP, L2TP)
>at their corporate firewall and dial into your terminal server with a box
>which supports the same protocol. The terminal server is just acting like
>a router in the link and doesn't care about the data.

This is required in order to outsource VPN. Otherwise it must be
done on an individual customer basis. We can't go up to a customers
and say that we offer them VPN but that they have to shell out
$20K to buy a firewall. :-)

Felipe

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