Diana Eichert wrote: > You should ask your corporate types if they support you as a user
Any question starting like that is going to get answered quickly "NO!" by PHBs. Ask if they support SSL connections. That will tell you if they are trying for 'security' but simply unable to, or if they have an axe to grind and are using the VPN for a non-technical agenda. This should be about standards, not some brain-dead push to sell boondoggles, regardless of whose cousin's shop is the reseller. Also, speaking of brain-dead. Avoid the term "support" until you are clear about how they define it. A lot of places have several tiers of "support" ranging from having to be local experts on a tool to only being able to install the package and say "you're now on your own" If there is difficulty, arrange a pilot with OpenVPN on OpenBSD and run a few use cases, gather a few metrics (ignoring previous thread on metrics). You can show increased "security" and, more importantly, savings. /Lars
