Re: (PM) VPN stuff (fwd)

Charles Scott (cscott@freeway.net)
Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:15:02 -0500 (EST)

Felipe:
$20K? Even if you wanted to do it the Cisco way with encryption you'd
only be in the $2K-$3K range. The customer is going to need some kind of
router at their end anyway unless they only want a tunnel from their
single machine to the other end (not sure if that makes sense). It would
seem that you can give the customer essentially a plug-n-play solution if
you deliver the router to them. If the customer wants to do their end on
their own, you just give them a dedicated IP (or is that even necessary?)
and let them setup the tunneling.
It appears that what you're looking for is a no-brain solution. I
wonder if there really is one for this applications.

Chuck

On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Ing. Felipe Tribaldos wrote:

> >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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