open source ssl vpns?
Lately, I’ve been considering the idea of a browser-based open-source SSL VPN. At the educational institution where I work, we have a FirePass 4000 from F5 Networks and it works wonderfully for the most part. I’m not the one who wrote the check for it, so I’ve no idea what it costs, though.
What I’ve been looking into is SSL-Explorer from 3SP. It seems to do a lot of the same things, but for many dollars less. The big thing for me is the ability to access a desktop remotely, e.g. by using the Remote Desktop Client in Windows XP.
Anyone used SSL-Explorer and have an opinion of it, good or bad? I’m actually installing Linux (CentOS, to be exact) on a new server at the moment just to try this out (if actually used, it’ll most likely be deployed on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server, though). What about other browser-based SSL VPNs? Did I miss another open-source one?
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open-vpn (http://openvpn.net/)
February 6, 2006, 8:50 am