VPN on Blackberry

May 14, 2007 7:10 PM

Is there a VPN client for Blackberry devices?

If I can find a way to connect via VPN, I could use my Blackberry as an emergency office, and could stop carrying around a notebook. I can't seem to find any such software, but this seems to be something that should be available somewhere.. I can't be the only person to need it...

posted by niteHawk to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

No. Or, I mean, yes. Only if you have the right model. The 7270 model had a VPN client, but it has never been publicly available in other models (as far as I know).

I believe BES provides something similar to a VPN service but I've never played around with it. Other solutions like Idokorro or SHAPE (formally desktop mobiles) might fit the bill.
posted by purephase at 7:39 PM on May 14, 2007

If you're using Windows and can enable the remote desktop connection, it looks like this client or this client or will work.
posted by null terminated at 8:19 PM on May 14, 2007

To connect to what?

The usual way to set up a corporate blackberry is to make one endpoint the BES inside the company network. At that point your blackberry is already "on" your intranet, so there's either already a VPN or no need for one depending on your point of view.
posted by mendel at 8:45 PM on May 14, 2007

My blackberry is set up the same way that mendel describes. I can ssh to anything on my internal network directly from my blackberry without the need for a VPN client, exactly because BES is inside the internal network.
posted by yeoz at 8:59 PM on May 14, 2007

I read that as VNC--ignore my response if it's off topic.
posted by null terminated at 9:12 PM on May 14, 2007

Response by poster: We are a... unique... situation with being inside the network. The BES server is in one part of the network, but my servers are on another.

Thanks
posted by niteHawk at 5:25 AM on May 15, 2007

To connect to what?
posted by mendel at 9:42 AM on May 15, 2007