[Cialug] Question about VPNs (OT?)

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Stuart Thiessen <thiessenstuart at aol.com> wrote:
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> Devices that will access the VPN would likely be an iPod Touch, an Android phone, and both Mac and windows laptops. (I'd rather be running Linux on the windows laptop, but my new job requires we use windows software for their software :( ).

I'd suggest looking at OpenVPN.  I don't know if you can get a client
that runs on the iPod Touch, but you certainly can get clients for
Android phones, Macs, Windows, and Linux.

You'll need to set up an OpenVPN server at home but it's not terribly
difficult.  If you're willing to dedicate a machine as a firewall/vpn
box I'd take a look at Astaro Security Gateway as it has a very nice
web GUI for setting up firewalls/vpns.

-- 
Jeff Ollie