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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. ____________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users Warning: require_once(../../../archive_common.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/openvpn/domains/openvpn.net/public_html/archive/openvpn-users/2005-09/msg00089.html on line 203 Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '../../../archive_common.php' (include_path='/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/openvpn/domains/openvpn.net/public_html/archive/openvpn-users/2005-09/msg00089.html on line 203 |