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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? -- _____________________________________________________________ Mathias Sundman /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign SunGard Availability Services \ / Tel: +46-(0)8-666 32 28 X NO HTML/RTF in e-mail Mob: +46-(0)70-306 63 78 / \ NO Word docs in e-mail ____________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |