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I'm curious about the part about no one liking dealing with VPNs. I have only used an OpenVPN network for my private use, not any entreprise-class system, but I
by Wilya 15y ago
I'm curious about the part about no one liking dealing with VPNs. I have only used an OpenVPN network for my private use, not any entreprise-class system, but I don't have much to complain about. Once I got how it worked, it was pretty painless to use.
Is it due to the policies and the way they are applied in big companies ? The tools ?
- ajross 15y agoEnterprise-class systems are far worse. If you know what you're doing, you can tune any IP tunneling solution into something the coexists nicely with your native network. That's not how any corporate VPN that I've seen works. They all hijack your box, sending all traffic down the pipe to the company firewalls and killing latency. Sometimes it's worse: they try to be smart, and send local traffic locally, but they still try to use their own DNS servers, thus breaking local addresses from e.g. the DHCP server at your local coffee house. It's just a disaster. And the problem that it's intended to solve isn't actually solved by pretending that data "inside" the corporate network is safe. Sane IT strategies always need authentication and encryption inside the wall too. So why bother with the VPN?