[OSX-Users] Re: iPhone 3.0 ...

[Neil Broderick]

As far as I can tell the only reason for the wireless VPN is to allow  
you
to connect to various license servers (matlab and mathematica). Why you
cann't do that once you connect normally to their wireless network is a
mystery to me.

cheers,
Neil
On 18 Jun 2009, at 12:46, Tim Chown wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:40:31PM +0100, Daniel Alexander Smith  
> wrote:
>>
>> On 18 Jun 2009, at 12:28, Tim Chown wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Though one person in iSolutions seems violently opposed to 802.1x  
>>> due
>>> to it not (yet) being available to sufficent standard by default in
>>> all
>>> OSes, which I see as a little short-sighted.
>>
>> Speaking of iSolutions (presumably this is another rebranding of
>> ISS?), I still don't quite understand why they have two different VPN
>> hosts (one for use only on their wireless, and one you can't use on
>> their wireless), while ECS seems to have no problem offering a single
>> VPN solution.
>
> I guess their BlueSocket boxes may have some VPN capability built in,
> but I agree that sounds odd.    What do you need to connect to in each
> case?
>
> -- 
> Tim
>
>