Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?

2004-06-16 Thread bscott
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, at 9:38am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These will be the last Linksys VPN boxes I buy ... based on my experience trying to configure them. Yah, like I said, LinkSys is pretty horrible for VPN stuff. The thing that really worries me is: A VPN box that is doing things

Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?

2004-06-16 Thread Travis Roy
The thing that really worries me is: A VPN box that is doing things incorrectly will appear to work just like a VPN box that is doing things correctly. Unless you actually try and crack it, you'll never know that it, say, is using the same session key over and over again. I would have to say

Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?

2004-06-15 Thread Bruce Dawson
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 09:38, Hewitt Tech wrote: These will be the last Linksys VPN boxes I buy based on my experience trying to configure them. It took me a couple of hours just to get the two boxes to talk to each other. They have remained connected for 24 hours or so but the setup was very

Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?

2004-06-15 Thread Hewitt Tech
- Original Message - From: Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 11:14 AM Subject: Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances? On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 09:38, Hewitt Tech wrote: These will be the last Linksys VPN boxes I buy based on my

Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?

2004-06-14 Thread Hewitt Tech
- Original Message - From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 10:07 PM Subject: Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, at 9:40pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... shared secrets went

Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?

2004-06-14 Thread bscott
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, at 9:32am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He dropped one line that really annoyed me. He stated that Windows Server 2003 performed a new authentication protocol that would break most Samba network share setups. It's not new. There has long been a feature in NT that supports

Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?

2004-06-14 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, at 9:40pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... shared secrets went out in the 1980s ... Maybe, but SNMP V3 still uses it.. That's hardly an endorsement. SNMP's approach to security issues has

Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?

2004-06-14 Thread bscott
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, at 10:13am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Public-key crypto in SNMP would probably be unweildy, especially since SNMP is supposed to have a light footprint to make it easy to put into small embedded systems. That's not the point I was making. A lot of customers just want to

Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?

2004-06-13 Thread Brian
On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 13:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had someone recommend SnapGear to me; it is apparently a Linux-based appliance. Haven't had a chance to actually look into it, though. If you're speaking of the ClearPath SNAP box... It *is* linux-based, but not really shipping

Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?

2004-06-13 Thread bscott
On 13 Jun 2004, at 1:32pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had someone recommend SnapGear to me ... If you're speaking of the ClearPath SNAP box... No, I'm speaking of SnapGear. http://www.snapgear.com Hmmm... they appear to have been bought by CyberGuard. Since I don't really know

Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?

2004-06-13 Thread bscott
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, at 9:40pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... shared secrets went out in the 1980s ... Maybe, but SNMP V3 still uses it.. That's hardly an endorsement. SNMP's approach to security issues has generally been to ignore them. (SNMP = Security? Not my problem!) The

Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?

2004-06-13 Thread Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, at 9:40pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... shared secrets went out in the 1980s ... Maybe, but SNMP V3 still uses it.. That's hardly an endorsement. SNMP's approach to security issues has generally been to ignore them. (SNMP =

Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?

2004-06-12 Thread Brian
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 22:51, Hewitt Tech wrote: I need them for a client that wants to have secure access to their office from a remote worker's home office. Any suggestions? SonicWall and Fortinet have both worked well for us. ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?

2004-06-12 Thread Hewitt Tech
, 2004 6:52 AM Subject: Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances? On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 22:51, Hewitt Tech wrote: I need them for a client that wants to have secure access to their office from a remote worker's home office. Any suggestions? SonicWall and Fortinet have both worked

Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?

2004-06-12 Thread Cole Tuininga
I'm using linux boxes running FreeS/WAN myself. Had quite good luck with it... -- ... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. -- Robert Firth Cole Tuininga Lead Developer Code

Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?

2004-06-12 Thread Jerry Feldman
think about it. -Alex - Original Message - From: Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hewitt Tech [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Greater NH Linux User Group[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 6:52 AM Subject: Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances? On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 22