Common Questions

This section covers some of the common questions while deploying Novell^® BorderManager^® VPN services.

• Do I need to first upgrade the server or the clients?
• What if we have a mixture of NBM 3.7 and NBM 3.8 clients and servers in the network?
• Can I use third-party servers in the network?
• Can I use an LDAP server which is on a different machine?
• How do I deal with slow links across different sites?
• What if I have a very large number of users in a third-party directory server and want to configure client-to-site?
• What if a client is connected to the ISP through dial-up with dynamic NAT at the ISP?
• How can I restrict the users to access only some of my internal networks based on their access level for VPN client-to-site?
• How to upgrade the existing NBM servers to the latest version?
• Can all the VPN servers be on the same eDirectory Tree?
• What if the VPN servers are in different eDirectory trees?
• Would like to configure both client-to-site and site-to-site on the same machine?
• Can eDirectory support two or more VPN services simultaneously?
• Can corporate resources be securely accessed using NBM and can resources among branch offices be shared securely?