RE: [FW1] Linksys BEFSR11 question

[Miller, Byron]

Linksys's NAT is far from cheasy. I found firewall1's nat CHEASY.   The linksys works with PPTP and Win2000's IPsec VERY Well. I am using firmare 1.33 with logging enabled and i can  get PPTP and IPsec just fine. You do have to MANUALLY turn on those features.  You can also setup a DMZ machine and try using those protocols as well if the software you are running is Cheasy.   ON a side note, just to let people know. The LinkSys DSL only Costs 149 which includes 4 100mbit full duplex switched ports as well as NAT, Port Forwarding and firewall features. With the new flash's you can log traffic and all sorts of stuff.   Some things to consider, try a DMZ machine internally and get that working before you try doing it from a firewalled box.  Try using static ip addresses instead of DHCP addresses as well.  try disabling hide external interface, sometimes that may freak out a protocol in not encapsulating it with your correct external interface if it is trying to use that as a source address.   There are all sorts of things to checkout, but getting PPTP and IPsec through a linksys was many times easier then through FW1 :)   And you can't beat the price.   -byron -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 10:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [FW1] Linksys BEFSR11 question This is not new, there have been a number of people with issues with linksys routers. ou may wish to try sp2's udp encapsulation feature.   I think linksys may be doing some sort of cheesy NAT or something.   Thomas Poole -----Original Message----- From: Orr, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 12:03 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [FW1] Linksys BEFSR11 question I have purchased a Linksys EtherFast 1-Port Cable/DSL Router with the 1.35 firmware and am unable to get my VPN connection to work.  I’m running the RC2 of SecuRemote on a Windows 2000 Professional workstation.  My DSL provider is Ameritech.net and uses PPPoE.  I was able to get the SecuRemote to work prior to getting this router on my Windows 98 computer in conjunction with the EnterNet 300 PPPoE software (I couldn’t duplicate this setup if my life depended on it).  I bought the router because it does the PPPoE for me (which means no more EnterNet 300) and because their pre-sales support said that it works with any IPSec VPN including CheckPoint.  Has anyone been able to get their VPN to work using one of these routers?  If so, what did you have to do to get it to work?