Mac OS X and VPN

[Anthony Kirwan]

I work at a small office with ten employees. We are were looking into getting a server for running as a file server and also a VPN. All of the computers except for mine which is Mac OS X.3 are Windows XP and 2000 systems. I refuse to buy a M$ server because I fully believe in open standards and have no desire to get our office stuck using an over priced insecure server. I was planning on using FreeBSD as the file server using Samba and purchasing a Linksys or Cisco VPN. Now I’ve started to investigate the possibility of going with a Mac OS X server instead. I know that Mac OS X server can do the file serving for me just like the FreeBSD box can. My question is how well does the Mac OS X VPN work with Windows clients? How many VPN connections will the server allow?

[Anthony Kirwan]

Thanks for the info. That is good to hear about the VPN, I was a little concerned there might be a software limit on the number of VPN connections. I have seen that some VPN’s limit the connections to only one or two connections at a time. I really might go with Mac OS X server as it is almost utterly impossible to setup a road warrior style VPN on FreeBSD. FreeBSD handles the IPSec aspect of the VPN fine but trying to get L2TP and IPSec working together is impossible right now. I think considering the costs OS X server might be the best solution for our organization. Thanks again.

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