Pritunl as an alternative to classical OpenVPN connections
VPN on Steroids
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Pritunl, built on the OpenVPN protocol, seeks to give users a totally new VPN experience.
Businesses often need to give their road warriors access to the enterprise IT, and some private users also appreciate the ability to "phone home." With an increasing numbers of households depositing their personal documents on large networked drives, it's little wonder that many people need to be able to access their data at home via VPN when they are on the road. However, what should be your tool of choice for this task?
At one time, IPsec was more or less the standard in all things VPN; however, in the course of many years, OpenVPN has built up an excellent reputation for security and ease of use. When you finish installing Ubuntu 14.04, for example, all you need to do is add the openvpn package to operate an OpenVPN server. Moreover, OpenVPN is very easy to set up on the client side: Android comes with an OpenVPN client out of the box, and if you use iOS, you will find a matching tool in the App Store. Clients for Windows, Linux, and OS X are naturally also available. Ideally, establishing a working client-server setup with OpenVPN will take you just a few minutes.
Pritunl
Pritunl, built on the OpenVPN protocol, is sounding the attack: Pritunl simply promises to be the perfect VPN solution for practically any implementation and to exceed the functionality and convenience of OpenVPN alone. Can the program really offer more? Is it really as easy to install as OpenVPN? And, what about the Pritunl Enterprise products [1]?
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