Soon, I'll be replacing an old Dell router at a client office with either the SG115 or 125. I have 4 remote users. They all have routers in their home office that I have configured for site-to-site persistent VPN connection. This has allowed them instant RDP into virtual computers and instant access to mapped network drives. It's worked for 3-4 years with very few problems.
Since I'm changing the router, this will change the dynamics of VPN. The current remote people can remain the same. I can setup site-to-site VPN for them so it's little disruption in how they operate. For future remote users who have a workstation at home, and I'll have some future laptop users roaming around (sales people), I'm interested in client-less VPN. The home users - I really don't want to have to buy them a new router and configure it. I'd rather they just continue using whatever they have in their home.
I ask about client-less because my wife has a setup like that with her company. She's 100% remote. She basically turns her computer on, logs in, and has instant access to her mapped drives (all 8 of them). She has access to her network applications and internal SharePoint - and she doesn't log into any VPN connection. I've just never understood how that was setup but suspected it was clientless VPN.
So can the SG products do this? For the home worker, I could easy get them a RED device and VPN pretty much sets itself up, but it might be hard to convince my client to purchase a $300 device for a single user working at home. So, fo for the home workers - persistent VPN, low cost, and hands off for the employee (because they probably won't enjoy logging in daily - even though that should be enforced for security purposes). Laptop workers - questionable, but I would probably just install the VPN client and make them log in.
Thanks for your replies...
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