
For many systems administrators, choosing and managing a VPN system is often quite a headache. Inflexible clients, servers, and protocols often prevent VPN's from being smoothly integrated into an already functioning network. The fact that many VPN clients are installed on users' home computers, well out of the reach of the systems administration team, often means that troubleshooting and upgrading VPN systems is time consuming and a struggle for both admins and users.
I understand and use other VPN solutions (IPSEC and PPTP), but this seems at first glance to be just like creating a tunnel with SSH.. Am I missing the boat here?