Re: Port 135 Probes Continue

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

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    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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