Hi folks, I'm trying to sort out in my mind my options for VPN access. I have my simple home LAN (2 Windows boxes behind a Bering 1.2 box) that needs to access other Windows based LANs via VPN using IPSec (not PPTP), one of the LANs is behind a Cisco router and the other behind a Windows ISA server. I see Tom's documentation clearly says:
If IPSEC is being used then only one system may connect to the remote gateway and there are firewall configuration requirements as follows: ACTION SOURCE DESTINATION PROTOCOL PORT CLIENTPORT ORIGINALDEST DNAT net:192.0.2.224 loc:192.168.1.12 50 DNAT net:192.0.2.224 loc:192.168.1.12 udp 500 If you want to be able to give access to all of your local systems to the remote network, you should consider running a VPN client on your firewall. As starting points, see http://www.shorewall.net/Documentation.htm#Tunnels or http://www.shorewall.net/PPTP.htm. Here's my question: Both of the boxes on my LAN need VPN access to the remote LANS, but not at the same time, necessarily. Is there any reason (advantages / disadvantages) I would want to implement a VPN client on my Bering firewall -vs- Toms simple configuration. If I set up the VPN client on Bering, do you anticipate any obscure configuration "issues" since my LAN connection point would be my Bering box and the other side would be a Cisco router or Windows ISA server? Your comments and suggestions are most welcomed! Thank you...have a great weekend. Craig ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
