Distributing VPN Clients

[rmerritt]

My hospital is rolling out more VPNs and this time it is going to vendors that I have no control over. Is there a way to tie the VPN client installation to a MAC address? I have not been able to find it.

I am hoping that it is possible so I can distribute clients to specific PCs. We do not want to send a CD that can be installed on any box. The user would still have to authenticate but I like to know where my traffic is coming from.

[awaheed]

Hi Merritt,

At this time there is no way to tie the VPN Client installation to the MAC address, but you can definately put the Client on a site with only certain username/password access it, that way not everyone will have access to download and run it on there PCs.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Aamir Waheed,

Cisco Systems, Inc.

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[rmerritt]

Thanks Aamir. I know how to do the username/password but when you have to give it to 20 personnel at one site, the administration gets to be crazy. I cannot talk our boss into going with the 3002. My preferred solution.

[dladen]

Can he use certificates to accomplish the same results? Can something be embedded into a Certificate that make it usable on select machines?

[rmerritt]

I will look into certificates. I don't have a lot of experience with them but I know how to do research.