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Posted by robro on March 31, 2008, 12:20 pm
> >I have a problem that I can't figure out any way to resolve. We have
> >a software application that we support that's installed at various
> >client sites. Each client uses a different VPN solution. My
> >developer needs to be able to connect to each client at any given time
> >to do support or perform software upgrades, but the various VPN
> >clients have problems co-existing on one machine. The only thing I
> >can think of is installing something like Virtual PC and installing a
> >different client each on a different VPC (though I'm not 100% certain
> >this will even work)... he'd have to set up a development environment
> >in each VPC as well which is a PITA. I can't really set him up with
> >more hardware as it needs to be portable and lugging several laptops
> >back and forth between home and work isn't really a convenient
> >option. Does anyone have another idea as to how I might get around
> >this issue? It's only going to get worse as more and more clients
> >begin to use our software.
>
> Welcome to the wooly world of VPN. :)
>
> Unfortunatly, there's not a whole lot of things you can do. The
> virtual machine one is in use in more than a few sites that I know about.
> Yes, it will work just fine (assuming you have a NAT-T compliant VPN
> solution or setup the VM to bridge packets out if there's more than
> one IP available).
>
> You can try to figure out a VPN client that works with all VPN servers
> out there including yours, and tell your clients to use that one.
>
> Or, you can change your VPN solution to do something like use the
> builtin IPsec/L2TP client in windows which other VPN clients generally
> don't mess with.
>
> But yes, on windows, its generally a pain dealing with multiple VPN
> client software, and they all tend to interfer with each other because
> they have to hook low into the same TCP/IP stack.
Ok thanks, crap... we can't dictate the customers' VPN solution, so I
guess
I'll have to look at VPCs or multiboot solutions. I've tried getting
the built in
Microsoft VPN solution to work before with some various VPN installs
and I've hit a dead end in some cases after spending hours of work on
it. While it ultimately may have been possible, I don't have the time
or
resources to go back down that road again. Oh well.
I think going forward, I may have to talk to my management/sales and
see if we can push something like we need to be able to directly RDP
or
VNC into the server without having to deal with a VPN.
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