RE: VPN

I use pcAnywhere to access my PC in the office over the Internet via cable.
That gives me the best of both worlds. I still have the LAN in my home
system but I have access to everything in my office, including the AS/400.

In order to get through the firewall at the office I wrote some software
that allows the pcAnywhere host session to connect out to my PC at home,
rather than my PC coming in. 

Albert York                          

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Westdorp, Tom [SMTP:Tom.Westdorp@StationCasinos.com]
        Sent:   Tuesday, February 04, 2003 1:44 PM
        To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
        Subject:        RE: VPN

        We use a CISCO device, and some CISCO client software on the PC's.
We had
        split tunneling turned on, letting a workstation at home access our
whole
        network including the iSeries systems concurrently with access to
the
        internet via the cable modem.  Worked GREAT!  Speed and convenience
were
        excellent.  Better than being at the office.

        Then our network group got scared over a story about the sub-seven
trojan
        getting stuff up and down the VPN tunnel and then up and down the
internet
        tunnel.  That made them turn off split tunneling and now when you
connect to
        our VPN it changes your IP address and it acts like a dial up.
Still
        faster, but only dedicated to the VPN session.  Oh, and any file,
printer or
        what have you sharing behind your own firewall? <boom>  You've
disappeared
        from your own network and been assimilated into the work network.
Kills
        backups from my laptop to my desktop hard drives, kills printer
sharing,
        etc.  GRRRR...  Now VPN is almost useless to me.  Lots of
'discussion' over
        the business ethics of the company coming in to my network and
changing
        settings, basically protecting its network by attacking mine.   

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Vern Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@centerfieldtechnology.com]
        Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 1:17 PM
        To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
        Subject: RE: VPN


        Chuck, we have a LinkSys VPN appliance that acts as our firewall -
low 
        buck, I know, and there are other more secure options. That unit is
exposed 
        to the outside world. From home I use a VPN client on my W98
machine. 
        Others have XP, which has IPSEC builtin and can be configured nicely
for 
        this router. The goal is to shut down everything and only allow VPN
traffic 
        into the internal network. This router uses essentially a password
(shared 
        secret), not a digital certificate, so it is more crackable than
other 
        systems. There are a number of architectures for firewall/VPN setups
that 
        I've seen - I like the integrated appliance approach, but others
know the 
        alternatives.

        For us this is adequate. We've tried to understand, to some degree,
anyway, 
        our exposure, and are satisfied with the cost-risk-benefit of this
setup. 
        But please do not go with a solution until you've looked at the
risks and 
        the value of what you are protecting, and the cost of protecting it.

        There's no one-size-fits-all solution, IMO.

        Cheers

        Vern

        At 02:00 PM 2/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:
        >I am new to all of this (as of late last year and a VPN to allow
our Sales
        >folks to access our AS/400). As you note, this was not always
supported.
        >
        >Our AS/400 isn't public and the VPN router sits behind a firewall.
Is that
        >of concern ?
        >
        >Thanks,
        >
        >Chuck
        >


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