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KTSmith
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 Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 4:00 am Post subject: Radius versus VPN?? |
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We have a small office of 50 users and some users use Windows 2003 VPN
capability to log in remotely. I have now been ask to setup wireless on our
network; therefore, I am looking at implementing IAS for wireless access.
After reading and researching, I am a bit confused. In some articles it
states you can use VPN and Radius for VPN access and for wireless access as
it provides more security (how - I guess I got more confuse on this too).
Either way, I still have to authenticate using username and password so what
does RADIUS afford me in the VPN scenario? I can see how it would be for
wireless since VPN doesn't have the facility to accept wireless.
Again, what does IAS provide me for plain VPN? In VPN I already have user
accounts with policies. To me IAS only provides another layer. Correct me
if I am wrong. |
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James McIllece [MS]
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:51 am Post subject: Re: Radius versus VPN?? |
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"KTSmith" <ktsmith@msn.com> wrote in
news:ur#kzwaxHHA.2384@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl:
| Quote: | We have a small office of 50 users and some users use Windows 2003 VPN
capability to log in remotely. I have now been ask to setup wireless
on our network; therefore, I am looking at implementing IAS for
wireless access. After reading and researching, I am a bit confused.
In some articles it states you can use VPN and Radius for VPN access
and for wireless access as it provides more security (how - I guess I
got more confuse on this too). Either way, I still have to
authenticate using username and password so what does RADIUS afford me
in the VPN scenario? I can see how it would be for wireless since VPN
doesn't have the facility to accept wireless.
Again, what does IAS provide me for plain VPN? In VPN I already have
user accounts with policies. To me IAS only provides another layer.
Correct me if I am wrong.
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The primary advantage to using IAS with your VPN servers is that you can
centrally manage network access policies using IAS for both wireless and
VPN. This means that you won't need to create and manage VPN policies and
wireless policies in different places, the policies will all be visible in
IAS and simpler to manage. This is especially true the more VPN and
wireless APs that you add.
In addition, IAS logging provides the ability to log to SQL server rather
as well as to text file.
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James McIllece, Microsoft
Please do not send email directly to this alias. This is my online account
name for newsgroup participation only.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. |
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