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[Openvpn-users] Re: Openvpn-users digest, Vol 1 #508 - 10 msgs


  • Subject: [Openvpn-users] Re: Openvpn-users digest, Vol 1 #508 - 10 msgs
  • From: Mathias Sundman <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:35:33 +0200 (CEST)

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 12:32:14AM -0500, Tom Barcellona wrote:
> >
> > > The only feature I'm still missing is either a build in firewall in
> > > the windows client, or maybe preferable a way to control an existing
> > > firewall software from OpenVPN.
> >
> > That would be a nice feature, but its starting to move outside the realm
> > of OpenVPN. There are some commercial "SSL vpn" boxes that have that
> > feature, but no open source ones as of yet. (google for "ssl vpn" to see
> > a few of them) I don't know what James thinks of this.
>
> IMHO That's completely out of the scope of the VPN software. And that
> would only add complexity (thus bringing insecurity) to OpenVPN.

I agree it's starting to move outside the realm of OpenVPN, that's why I
said "preferable a way to control an existing firewall software". That I
don't think is taking OpenVPN to far.


> The firewall rules should be handled by the firewall software, which
> should have nothing to do with the VPN software or the office suite.

So you don't see any point in beeing able to verify that a VPN client has
a specific firewall rule-set applied before allowing him access to the
protected network?


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