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[biggdogg285]

I am looking for reliable VPN solutions.
Shall I go with a software solution such as OpenVPN, or a hardware solution such as Checkpoint Firewall with VPN?
I was thinking about this hardware: http://www.checkpoint.com/products/utm-1_edge/index.html#tabID1
Any advice is greatly appreciated.

[zwtint]

Hey,
I suggest pptp based VPN (http://www.poptop.org).
In this case Windows users doesnt need any software preinstalled to their machines!

[jNive]

it would depend on the features required, security/performance etc.
I use a Vyatta OFR running on VMWare - complete with OpenVPN (for remote clients) and IPv6 tunneling and using IPSEC/GRE site-to-site VPN (running OSPF) between Vyatta sites, runs fairly nicely
If using OpenVPN, it has clients for OSX (tunnelblick), Windows & Linux

[rolypoly]

I will stay away from pptp if you are seriously looking for a secure vpn solution.
Openvpn is the way to go. It is 2048 bit. pptp = 128 bit! yucks!
I have an openvpn account with www.smallvpn.com . Works great and it is affordable for a personal user like me.
No complain since i am getting an openvpn account for just $10 bucks.

[CoderJosh]

I'd go for OpenVPN as well, it's very easy to install the client software and it's very secure.

[L3-Carl]

OpenVPN is a good solution to use, you can easily configure the OpenVPN client for Mac/Windows/Linux.
I use Viscosity on my mac

[dkitchen]

Hey,
I suggest pptp based VPN (http://www.poptop.org).
In this case Windows users doesnt need any software preinstalled to their machines!
PPTP is a terrible protocol and I suggest you stay well away from it. Being a portless protocol you will often only be able to create one tunnel through a NAT point, it won't work at all through some firewalls without configuration changes.
You could use IPSEC directly to a hardware firewall, or use something like OpenVPN.

[Red Squirrel]

I have two openvpn servers in my home network (one for myself soly and one for developers for some projects I'm working on). works great. It's a real pain to get it going but once you get it going and document all the steps, it's great. One of these days I need to write a howto.