vpn client software

[IPOfficeIreland]

hi all

i am looking for a vpn solution in the following scenario if anyone can give recommendations and experiece would be greatly appreciated:

I will have my office server and pbx on 1 lan but I want to allow up to 100 maybe more clients access to features of these devices over vpn.

What I was thinking were my options were as follows:

1 Router with multiple vpn client policies, each client then uses windows vpn dial in to establish and connect to our network.

2 A vpn client application which connects to a 3rd party vendor linking to our site. This type of option would be my prefferred but I don't know what's available or what the costs are involved. I don't really want to pay too much for each user per month as it becomes pointless.

What we do is sell services to the users but they need vpn access to our network to do this.

Any suggestions or recommendations appreciated.

Thanks

 

[jdewood]

I have been using WallCooler for a while and it works great.
It is basically a Software VPN over SSL.
The free version allows single user connection.
They have an enterprise account for up to 50 users (not free though).

They also relay the data, so you don't need to have any computer with a public IP (not even your server VPN).

Pricingwise, I think they charge ~3$/month per user over 5 user.

WallCooler website:

http://www.vedivi.com

If you need more advice, let me know, I have been using for nearly a year now.

 

[burtsbees]

Doesn't sound very secure...Microsoft Outlook does that now.
I would stick with something that can perform an IPSEC tunnel, or an ssl tunnel, not just a software VPN, unless the traffic is encrypted and then tunneled or something...
Cisco has very nice products (like the ASA 5500 series---for 100 users, I think it would be a 5510).

Burt

 

[jdewood]

WallCooler does an SSL end to end tunnel, so the data is encrypted on one side and decrypted on the other side.
Pretty secure to me.

It is just nice and simple to use, don't need to worry about hardware & maintenance.

John.