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08 March 2006 | 16,267 views

SSL VPNs and OpenVPN – Part II

2. Why OpenVPN Here, in this article, I will lay down the emphasis on one important Open-Source SSL VPN software written by James Yonan and contributed by several others, which proposes security without the inherent complexity of IPsec AND using a trusted design of client component and VPN server. Usually VPNs require end points which [...]

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07 March 2006 | 26,885 views

SSL VPNs and Using OpenVPN

Requirement: To connect to a VPN server in a different country. Situation: A country which has proxies at every gateway. Issues: VPN based on IPSec is fussy when it comes across networks which are NAT’ted/ proxied. The Security Parameters Indexes don’t match and clients do not get connected. Objective: To connect VPN server in a [...]

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