[nzlug] connecting two networks?

[Simon]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Matthew Poole <matt at p00le.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 21 May 2008, Simon wrote:
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>> I agree with your points here. The fortigate filewall at the data
>> centre end is cool.. but what can i use on our office end.. we dont
>> have a firewall or router that could do this?
>>
> Not knowing the product, can it talk SSL VPN? If so, do you have a spare box
> at the TGA office that could be installed with Linux to form an SSL VPN,
> with the users in the TGA office directing their connections to the servers
> to that Linux box? Wouldn't have to be especially powerful if all it's doing
> is terminating a single VPN connection.

Yes - the fortigate can do SSL VPN, and we run XenServer for just
about everything.. so a debian etch box is easy to create :)