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Re: Need recommendation for VPN hardware



 On Jan 10, 2008 7:37 AM, John Abreau <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> If it has to be hardware, or if it absolutely has to be either L2TP 
> or PPTP, then I don't have any specific recommendations. 
> 
> If it's sufficient that it handles #s 1, 2, and 3, then OpenVPN 
> works very well. 
> 
>     http://openvpn.sourceforge.net
> 
> 
> On Jan 9, 2008 9:06 PM, Robert La Ferla <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> > I need a recommendation for VPN hardware. 
> > 
> > 1.  Works w/Mac OS X, Windows and Linux 
> > 2.  Users > 12 
> > 3.  Price < $2,000 
> > 4.  Either "L2TP over IPSec" or PPTP".  (I don't know what the pros/ 
> > cons are with these two protocols are so someone please elaborate why 
> > one is better than the other.) 
> > 
> > We did get a Netgear SSL312 VPN Concentrator but it does not work w/ 
> > OSX and has a limited throughput of 64k. 
> > 
> > 


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