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Comments on: Take a secure hotspot home with you

Home VPN? 

Posted Monday 23rd July 2007 15:04 GMT

How many of the naive are going to be able to deal with having to manage the burden of 2 APs? Channel management can be a bitch. Personally, I just run FreeSwan from my wirelessly connected laptops to my firewall. It was a real pain encapsulating my wife's Cisco VPN, but it now works. I even use FreeSwan remotely. Just connect to my internal box via FreeSwan and SSH and run my browser and email remotely. But that's not for the naive.

This is a solution looking for a problem. It does nothing to deal with those connected via 100baseT.

So last Decade? 

Posted Monday 23rd July 2007 16:38 GMT

Wasn't it a while ago that everyone was crazy about working at home?

And what company, exactly, asks employees to work at home and does not provide them a laptop? And how hard is it to set up a VPN client on that laptop? And yes, that VPN client would even work over wireless!

Seems like a product that is still looking for a market...

And that reminds me, I've been meaning to reinstall OpenVPN...