choice of vpn for remote access for assignment

[abdillajackie]

Hello,i m still new in this forum, and would like to know if anyone can help me out pls. Can someone pls give me some knowledge as to what hardware to use for a company of 30 employees having one head office and 15 sales persons around the world connecting to head office remotely for quotations and queries using vpn.
Thanks
Jackie

[skt_skt]

i would prefer VPN becasue of known secure method..; but i am not to comapare the cost invloved in either of this method

[Bertho Stultiens]

Simple and cheap solution is one linux-box installed with OpenVPN (http://openvpn.net/ ).

I am using it with about 50 accounts on a Fedora machine (~1.5GHz P4) which basically runs idle. I use client certificates (my own CA) and can control who, what and when.

Clients are available for Windows 2k+, *BSD, Mac OSX, Solaris and Linux.

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Greetings Bertho