[SunRescue] OT:VPN WAN's

[Clay Mellender]

I highly recommend "CIPE" Capsulated IP Encryption. Most (If not all)
VPN's are tcp over tcp, which adds a lot of overhead to communications
with all of the error checking and such. Not to mention it is prone to
crash.  CIPE is tcp over udp. Constant stream, Encryption, high
reliability. I have it running between our main office in Madison, WI
and our branch in Chicago. Supports 30 users over a 768k sdsl line. Did
I mention it is open source also?
See http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/mini/Cipe+Masq.html for Linux
info, but there has got to be a SUN solution around if you'd rather go
that route.(No pun intended)

Clay Mellender

"Hatle, Steven J." wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> Pardon my digression, but I'd rather get the scoop from you guys than wade
> through a bunch of sales droids.
> 
> Our company needs to put together a WAN encompassing 200 US cities. Mgmt.
> would like to use the 'Net as our transport, instead of a frame-relay
> network because of cost. A requirement of the WAN (frame or 'net) is to
> support Windows authentication (PDC/BDC), management, software updates,
> email, remote control, etc. No technical users would be at these sites- we'd
> have to do a ton from here, so simplicity and supportability are key.
> 
> Are there viable VPN solutions to provide this functionality over the 'net?
> Any hints, recommendations or commiseration is welcome.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Steve
> 
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