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portwineboy · 12-27-2004, 07:27 AM

My buddy has an IT consulting business that I might be doing some work for. One of his clients is thinking about ditching their VPN client for RPC over HTTP aka RPC over HTTPS.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...402731033.aspx

http://www.mcpmag.com/columns/articl...itorialsID=758

They claim their VPN is slow and subject to frequent disconnects. My feeling is that they need a new VPN provider or client as my experience with Cisco clients and AT&T clients/service has been quite positive, however, since we are not yet engaged in the job we can't investigate.

I'm wondering if anyone has experience with RPC over HTTP and can provide any insight? My fears are a) it's from Microsoft b) it's free c) relies soley on SSL as security whereas VPN SSL/SSH are only 1 part of security process and d) it's from Microsoft and free and they aren't known for secure products

For a firm with little FT IT support it seems like a bad idea given the complexity. My thought would be to point them at a AT&T type soup to nuts solution.

Any thoughts????

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portwineboy Master of No Domains Location: WEEhawken, New Joisey	RPC over HTTP instead of VPN - anyone gone this route? My buddy has an IT consulting business that I might be doing some work for. One of his clients is thinking about ditching their VPN client for RPC over HTTP aka RPC over HTTPS. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...402731033.aspx http://www.mcpmag.com/columns/articl...itorialsID=758 They claim their VPN is slow and subject to frequent disconnects. My feeling is that they need a new VPN provider or client as my experience with Cisco clients and AT&T clients/service has been quite positive, however, since we are not yet engaged in the job we can't investigate. I'm wondering if anyone has experience with RPC over HTTP and can provide any insight? My fears are a) it's from Microsoft b) it's free c) relies soley on SSL as security whereas VPN SSL/SSH are only 1 part of security process and d) it's from Microsoft and free and they aren't known for secure products For a firm with little FT IT support it seems like a bad idea given the complexity. My thought would be to point them at a AT&T type soup to nuts solution. Any thoughts???? __________________ If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in English, thank a veteran.