Hello,
I have a database server which i want it to be available to my remote users, am thinking of deploying mikrotik ppp, and configure the remote users vpn clients, would that be easy ? as i have only 10 remote users, any other suggestions ? would the above work ?
Many thanks !
It depends on how secure you want it to be and what your remote users have for operating systems.
PPTP is very easy to set up, but isn’t all that secure.
IPSec/L2TP works, but for whatever reason MikroTik doesn’t like NAT traversal with it, so often the client needs to be on a direct public IP. At least it used to, I never really used it so haven’t tested it recently.
If your clients have a more modern version of windows, you can upgrade to 5.0rc1 and try out SSTP for your tunneling as well.
Basically read up on the wiki and see what options are available for use and decide what one will best fit your needs.