On 25/11/10 4:07 AM, tony.chamberlain@lemko.com wrote:
I am looking for the optimal VPN. Well it doens't have to be that elaborate. Just the best VPN. We currently have some customers using PPTP, some using openvpn, some using Cisco Any Connect and there are a few others.
Be careful with the Cisco VPN solutions. Cisco's VPN client is notoriously bad at handling 64-bit architecture and frequently induces kernel panics (I've seen this in both Linux and OS X systems).
So my question is, if you have control of both ends (client and server) what is the best VPN to use? There are not too many requirements, but a big one is
I'd go for OpenVPN, it's free and widely supported across multiple platforms.
The VPN must return the same IP address to the same user each time
That is there must be a specific IP address assigned to a user/password combination. pptp does not really do this but I wrote sort of a backend (or maybe frontend? ;-) ) to change the IP address assigned based on a login and password. It is extra stuff I would prefer not to do though.
RADIUS can assign a specific IP to a given user, but let OpenVPN handle the encryption.
Regards, Ben