John R Pierce wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> The OP did not want security, only tunneling. >> > > use simple PPPoE perhaps? > PPPoE does not have good behaviour over the broader Internet. Works find for the last mile. > I still think I'd recommend Juniper SSLVPN appliance hardware however. > The CTO over there is an old friend of mine.... > one of their midsized boxes can easily handle 1000s of sessions at wire > speeds up to 100baseT at the server side, and has really good > managability. if these clients are in fact field offices, I'd instead > use one of their ipsec hardware appliances (such as whatever has > replaced the Netscreen 208) and put the baby version (netscreen 5xl) at > each site so its LAN to WAN connectivity, transparent to all clients.. > > 1500 clients connected to this server, I do hope they are going to have > a high speed symmetric internet connection... even 128kbps per user > and half the users active, thast still 10 megabit symmetric pretty much > saturated.