Re: Port 135 Probes Continue

From: Walter Roberson (roberson_at_ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
Date: 01/12/04 

Date: 12 Jan 2004 20:43:27 GMT

In article <84-dnYjbk6sWTZzdRVn-tw@comcast.com>,
Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@comcast.net> wrote:

|"Walter Roberson" <roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote in message
|news:bsqo5i$88u$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca...

|> You assume, Leythos, that the IT staff have the budget and authority
|> to purchase appropriate VPN equipment and deploy it.

|Authority, yes. Budget? The only budget item is manpower for the project.
|Take a careful look at FreeSwan if you prefer IPsec, or at www.poptop.org
|for the UNIX/Linux based PPTP server that handles Microsoft's built-in VPN
|clients without pain. They can be hosted on quite a low end little machine,
|including a discarded old laptop, and even run from CD instead of from disk
|for security reasons.

Is "a discarded old laptop" going to be sufficient to handle
a few thousand users simultaneously, with total bandwidth in the hundreds
of megabits per second at the server end?

If I recall correctly, our main campus has multiple OC3, some of
which are saturated; our regional links are gigabit. Enterprise
level service costs real money. 

-- 
   Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific 
   Fain would I fathom thy nature specific. 
   Loftily poised on ether capacious 
   Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous.   -- Anon

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