VPN server for Windows 7 64-bit clients?

[Terry Kennedy]

I have been using a Netgear SSL312 SSL VPN server with Windows XP clients and it worked well. However, Netgear abandoned that product and doesn't have an equivalent replacement, and it doesn't work with Windows 7.

I'm looking for a replacement that will work using either SSL VPN or the built-in Windows 7 VPN client. The VPN server doesn't need to do any firewalling / switching / wireless stuff - there is a fully-functional firewalled network at the office already (high-end Cisco stuff - 2811 router, 4948 switch, 1252 access points). All the traffic from the outside will enter one Ethernet port on the VPN server and then exit the VPN server on the same Ethernet port. The Cisco router will permit traffic to the VPN server while denying traffic to most other hosts on the office LAN.

Since Windows 7 has been out for a while now, there should be some products that meet my requirements, but I can't seem to find them - they all have un-necessary (and potentially conflicting) features, like wanting to route between a WAN port and a bunch of local LAN ports, or have wireless built in, etc.

I don't want to install special client software on the Windows 7 clients - hence the requirement that either SSL VPN or the native Windows 7 VPN client be used. I don't need many concurrent connections - 5 would be overkill.

If you have a product like this installed and working, I'd be interested in hearing about it.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

there is a fully-functional firewalled network at the office already (high-end Cisco stuff - 2811 router,)

Why not just light up the PPTP host on the 2811?

 

[Terry Kennedy]

Why not just light up the PPTP host on the 2811?

The 2811 isn't actually on my LAN - it is a gateway between the outside world and my LAN, and doesn't use addresses in my /24 - its Ethernet link to my Catalyst 4948 is an unrelated /30. The first device that's on my LAN is the Catalyst 4948. Unfortunately, the IOS that the 4948 runs doesn't include VPDN support.