Informations request.

[jeff]

First, sorry for my english.
I just finished an worldwide experimentation with Wingate VPN.
(16 VPN "clients" and 1 VPN "server".)

I'm quite glad : everything worked fine in our configuration (except licencing : we bought 4 x "3 user licences" for the tests and only 2 of then worked (reg. server says "allready used" for the 2 others - is there a way to correct this ??) - rest of clients worked with trial version)

I'm now writing an experimental report, so that we may choose this VPN solution.
But I have some technical questions :

As the security strategy is not yes decided:
- How many "VPN to host" may we reasonnably configure. (are 150 OK ?)

I choosed a 3 "VPN to hosts" strategy (maybe may I choose a 1 Host / join star :
- trusted secured clients (as supernode) - 10 clients on lab => 50+ in future
- trusted clients (point to point only) - 4 clients on lab => 50+ in future
- other untrusted (point to point only) - 2 clients ont Lab => 10+ in future
=> How many max client "VPN to Join" may I reasonnably connect to the same "VPN to host". (only 1 Lan machine will generate trafic on client side)

- Can you also please explain me how I can increase VPN server performances using the "advanced settings properties" (buffers, ...) -

Sorry again for my poor english spoken.

Best regards from France.

Jeff

[adrien]

Hi Jeff

We don't place any limit on the number of VPNs to host.

However I believe that the overall limiting factor will not be numbers of VPNs to host but the total of all connected nodes to all hosted VPNs.

We do know of customers running systems with 150 connected nodes without trouble. There are some things to look out for, such as the size of routing tables.

Let me know about the licensing as well, we can fix that in our database.

Adrien

[adrien]

PS, performance overall is usually a factor of CPU and link speeds and link latency rather than numbers of buffers.

we have found a 3GHz Pentium 4 has no trouble keeping up with encryption / decryption on a 10MBit link, with still very low loading.

[jeff]

Thanks a lot. It's still a pleasure to see how fast you answer.

I can now easely write in my report that the Wingate VPN solution is OK for our actual (and future) needs.

When I'll be back to the main office, I will send a you a request about the 2 "bad" licences.

Friendly

Jeff

[jeff]

hello !!
Just one more request.

i'm working on our "wingate VPN" project. As we may deploy about 100-150 permanent remote users, i'm wondering what kind of OS we may use to host Wingate VPN server.

XP Pro SP2 as a "natural" limit : 10 connexions. (without 'patch')

For this kind of achitecture, which OS do you suggest ?

Thanks