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Re: [Openvpn-users] VPN Design Question


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] VPN Design Question
  • From: Leonard Isham <leonard.isham@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:44:20 -0400

On 9/8/05, John Brooks <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm adding some VPN's into an office network to permit remote
> access to a samba fileserver from 6 home dsl networks. All 7
> networks (6 home + 1 office) have OpenBSD firewalls with static
> IP's. All workstations are a mix of Win98, Win2K, and WinXP.
> 
> My first thoughts were to run OpenVPN on the firewalls themselves.
> But is that the best plan? Would it be better to run OpenVPN on
> the samba fileserver itself since that is the only resource the
> clients would be accesssing?
> 
> On the client side... Install on the remote firewalls or on the
> windows workstations? Any advice?
> 

On the firewalls.

You can limit the traffic from the DSL sites for when one of them get
infected. You are less susceptible to changes  on the remote computers
impacting the VPN.

On the main site what if a need to access some other system?  Also
firewalls tend to be more stable and less likely to have issues there
as well.

-- 
Leonard Isham, CISSP 
Ostendo non ostento.

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