[ale] VPN choices...

[dcorbin at machturtle.com (David Corbin)]

On Tuesday 08 March 2005 06:27 pm, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> > > How many concurrent users are we talking about here?
> >
> > There are ~30 people in the company.  Probably 5-10 at anyone time is
> > more than we'd need, but I don't really know.
> >
> > > How much available bandwidth is there?
> >
> > Fractional T1.  I think it's 512kbps, but don't know for sure.
> >
> > > What type of authentication do you want/need to support?
> >
> > Our current system (which has problems) uses a password and a pre-shared
> > key. Something similar woudl be good.
>
> Will this strictly be a VPN device, or does it need to be the primary
> firewall? DMZ needed?
>

I'm not sure how you seperate VPN "access point" from firewall, but then I'm a 
programmer not a network guy.  Currently, DMZ not required but I have heard 
that we may begin hosting our own public server(s), so DMZ support would 
probably be good.

David