Re: OT: IPSec Transport vs Tunnel modes (Was: VPN recommendations?)

2022-02-16 Thread Crist Clark
t. When they added tunnel mode, the inner layer 3 had to go somewhere. > > My understanding is that /Transport/ mode applies AH (no encryption) and > / or ESP (encryption) to L4 datagrams and that /Tunnel/ mode does the > same to L3 packets. > > P.S. I'm sending this reply to NANOG in case anyone else has any > contribution / comments. I suspect any future reply will be directly to > Bill as this is getting further off topic, both for NANOG in general and > for this VPN recommendations thread. > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die > >

Re: OT: IPSec Transport vs Tunnel modes (Was: VPN recommendations?)

2022-02-15 Thread Grant Taylor via NANOG
or ESP (encryption) to L4 datagrams and that /Tunnel/ mode does the same to L3 packets. P.S. I'm sending this reply to NANOG in case anyone else has any contribution / comments. I suspect any future reply will be directly to Bill as this is getting further off topic, both for NANOG in g

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-12 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 12:26 PM Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote: > On 2/11/22 12:35 PM, William Herrin wrote: > > The thing to understand is that IPSec has two modes: transport and > > but you can deconstruct it: it's built up from transport mode + > > a tunnel protocol (gre or ipip I don't remember

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-12 Thread Nathan Angelacos
On Sat, 2022-02-12 at 13:24 -0700, Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote: > On 2/11/22 12:35 PM, William Herrin wrote: > > The thing to understand is that IPSec has two modes: transport and > > tunnel. Transport is between exactly two IP addresses while tunnel > > expects a broader network to exist on at

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-12 Thread Grant Taylor via NANOG
On 2/11/22 12:35 PM, William Herrin wrote: The thing to understand is that IPSec has two modes: transport and tunnel. Transport is between exactly two IP addresses while tunnel expects a broader network to exist on at least one end. That is (syntactically) correct. However, it is possible to

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-12 Thread Christian de Larrinaga via NANOG
Intriguing. This week I started to look around for new wireguard implementation tools and appliances. I've used openvpn and ipsec in the main although last month put together a 10x and IPv6 wireguard net in my home and out to two vps hosts which is handy. For my own use this is ok -ish, but

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-11 Thread Rich Greenwood via NANOG
e IPv6 realm so if that is a requirement, they won't work right now. --Rich > -- Forwarded message -- > From: William Herrin > To: Shawn L > Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" > Bcc: > Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:54:39 -0800 > Subject: Re: VPN recommen

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-11 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 10:35 AM Dan Sneddon wrote: > 1) IPSEC does not lend itself to dynamic routing or dynamic configuration. It > is very much a static set-it-and-forget-it technology, but that doesn’t work > in a dynamically changing environment. Hi Dan, Depending on how you configure it,

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-11 Thread Mel Beckman
Guard and use ddns From: NANOG mailto:nanog-bounces+david=xtom@nanog.org>> On Behalf Of William Herrin Sent: Friday, February 11, 2022 2:02 AM To: nanog@nanog.org<mailto:nanog@nanog.org> Subject: VPN recommendations? Hi folks, Do you have any recommendations for VPN appliances? Spe

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-11 Thread Dan Sneddon
>> On 2022-02-10 10:12, Mike Lyon wrote: >> How about running ZeroTier on those Linux boxes and call it a day? >> https://www.zerotier.com/ >> -Mike >>> On Feb 10, 2022, at 10:07, David Guo via NANOG >>> wrote: >>>  >>> You may try Wire

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-11 Thread Mike Hammett
The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Ander Punnar" Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 2:04:57 PM Subject: Re: VPN recommendations? On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:55:40 -0800, William Herrin wrote: > My understanding is that Wireguard is software ava

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-11 Thread Bjørn Mork
Sabri Berisha writes: > I read on some mailing list that Meraki likes to ping 8.8.8.8 every > second... :) That's probably to be fair with the quad-x dns providers since they alrady were abusing 1.1.1.1. Makes me wonder what Meraki uses 9.9.9.9 for :-) Bjørn

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/11/22 06:49, David Andrzejewski wrote: I don't know how people around here feel about Mikrotik, but they have included Wireguard support in their latest operating system. I know some Tik heads here that are happy about this. I am running ROS 7.1.2 on my home router, but I don't use i

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Dave Taht
2022 13:56 > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: VPN recommendations? > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:04 AM David Guo wrote: > > You may try WireGuard and use ddns > > Hi David, > > My understanding is that Wireguard is software available for general purpose > operat

RE: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread David Andrzejewski
I don't know how people around here feel about Mikrotik, but they have included Wireguard support in their latest operating system. dave -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of William Herrin Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 13:56 Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:55:40 -0800, William Herrin said: > My understanding is that Wireguard is software available for general > purpose operating systems. I specifically need a set of hardware > network appliances. Take a general purpose OS, strip down the userspace a bit, stick the whole thin

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/10/22 20:02, William Herrin wrote: Hi folks, Do you have any recommendations for VPN appliances? Specifically: I need to build a site to site VPNs at speeds between 100mpbs and 1 gbit where all but one of the sites are behind an IPv4 NAT gateway with dynamic public IP addresses. No

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread William Herrin
Howdy, I just want to say thank you to everyone who responded. It was very helpful and I now have a bunch of leads to chase. I'll let you know what I end up doing. Given the lead times on some of the equipment it may be a while... Warm regards, Bill Herrin On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:02 AM Willi

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Sean Kelly
I work in a large oil company and we have S2S VPNs every where. Any modern Cisco or Juniper router will meet your requirements. An off the shelf security appliance will do the job to i.e ASA, Palo Alto, Fortinet or Juniper. Meraki is great if you want to manage from the cloud or vpn as a service

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Dave Taht
tailscale is 3-clause BSD. there is a reverse engineered version of the rendezvous protocol also. On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 3:41 PM John Gilmore wrote: > > Mike Lyon wrote: > > How about running ZeroTier on those Linux boxes and call it a day? > > https://www.zerotier.com/ > > ZeroTier is not a

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread John Gilmore
Mike Lyon wrote: > How about running ZeroTier on those Linux boxes and call it a day? > https://www.zerotier.com/ ZeroTier is not a free-as-in-freedom project. Running it in Linux boxes or network appliances to provide a VPN to paying customers may be prohibited (at least for some customers, and

RE: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Ryland Kremeier
behalf of Brandon Svec via NANOG Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 3:50:49 PM To: William Herrin Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: VPN recommendations? Meraki may be considered expensive, requires perpetual license to operate and is difficult to get currently (very long lead times) but is

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Brandon Svec via NANOG
Meraki may be considered expensive, requires perpetual license to operate and is difficult to get currently (very long lead times) but is dead.stupid.simple to install and maintain. I have yet to find a business or home network that it does not work on out of the box, but if you find one it would

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Mel Beckman
We use SonicWall TZ series for just this purpose. The IPSec VPN endpoints can be behind NAT, and we just use DYNDNS to map whatever is current to a FQDN. Each side thus has the public IP of the other side and can connect as long as you pass through GRE. -mel via cell On Feb 10, 2022, at 1:05 P

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Matt Harris
Matt Harris|Infrastructure Lead 816-256-5446|Direct Looking for help? Helpdesk|Email Support We build customized end-to-end technology solutions powered by NetFire Cloud. On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 12:03 PM William Herrin wrote: > Hi folks, > > Do you have any recommendations for VPN appliances? Sp

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Sabri Berisha
- On Feb 10, 2022, at 10:17 AM, nanog nanog@nanog.org wrote: Hi, > Meraki MX series? I read on some mailing list that Meraki likes to ping 8.8.8.8 every second... :) Thanks, Sabri

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Tom Beecher
. > > > > > > Shawn > > > > -Original Message- > From: "Keith Stokes" > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 1:11pm > To: "William Herrin" > Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" > Subject: Re: VPN recommendations? > > Pfsense on Net

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Ander Punnar
On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:55:40 -0800, William Herrin wrote: > My understanding is that Wireguard is software available for general > purpose operating systems. I specifically need a set of hardware > network appliances. MikroTik (hardware) RouterOS (software) version 7 has WireGuard: https://help.m

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Mark Wiater
I don't know of a specific document speaking to this, but this doc i think describes it right. https://securitynetworkinglinux.wordpress.com/2019/04/19/how-create-a-site-to-site-ipsec-vpn-from-an-opnsense-to-a-fortigate-behind-a-nat-router/ in section 2.3 is where you change My Identifer to be

RE: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread James R. Price
: nanog@nanog.org Subject: VPN recommendations? Hi folks, Do you have any recommendations for VPN appliances? Specifically: I need to build a site to site VPNs at speeds between 100mpbs and 1 gbit where all but one of the sites are behind an IPv4 NAT gateway with dynamic public IP addresses

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:55 AM William Herrin wrote: > My understanding is that Wireguard is software available for general > purpose operating systems. I specifically need a set of hardware > network appliances. I don't overly care which protocol they're running > as long as an initiator stuck

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:04 AM David Guo wrote: > You may try WireGuard and use ddns Hi David, My understanding is that Wireguard is software available for general purpose operating systems. I specifically need a set of hardware network appliances. I don't overly care which protocol they're ru

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:47 AM Juri Grabowski wrote: > Or buy official supported hardware from https://shop.opnsense.com/ Howdy, Opnsense looks like it might work. I dug through some of the documentation but didn't find something entirely on point for my use case. Are you aware of any document

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:18 AM Shawn L wrote: > Meraki MX series? Dynamic IPs and NATs don't really cause them a problem. > Some CGNats do (AT&T I'm looking at you). Thanks Shawn, The documentation I found at https://documentation.meraki.com/MX/Site-to-site_VPN/Site-to-Site_VPN_Settings sugg

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:06 AM Guillaume Tournat wrote: > Fortinet firewalls (FortiGate) are a great deal Thanks Guillaume, I found this https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-IPsec-VPN-between-static-and-dynamic-IP-FQDN/ta-p/191815 but it suggests that the dynamic IP forti

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread joy
ry WireGuard and use ddns From: NANOG On Behalf Of William Herrin Sent: Friday, February 11, 2022 2:02 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: VPN recommendations? Hi folks, Do you have any recommendations for VPN appliances? Specifically: I need to build a site to site VPNs at speeds between 100mpbs and

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread David Bass
If you want something gui driven I’d do something like Meraki…you can do the same with just regular old Cisco routers using DMVPN as well. It’s a pretty common use case and well established. On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 1:03 PM William Herrin wrote: > Hi folks, > > Do you have any recommendations fo

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Phineas Walton
ell at establishing site-to-site > VPNs in some pretty challenging scenarios. Dynamic IPs and NATs don't > really cause them a problem. Some CGNats do (AT&T I'm looking at you). > > > > > > > > > > > > Shawn > > > > > &

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Dave Taht
roblem. Some CGNats do (AT&T I'm looking at you). > > > > > > Shawn > > > > -Original Message- > From: "Keith Stokes" > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 1:11pm > To: "William Herrin" > Cc: "nanog@nanog.org"

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Mark Wiater
: Thursday, February 10, 2022 1:11pm To: "William Herrin" Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" Subject: Re: VPN recommendations? Pfsense on Netgate appliances? I’ve used several of them, while not for this exact purpose they have done the roles but maybe not the amount of VPN traffic. -- Keith

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Shawn L via NANOG
(AT&T I'm looking at you). Shawn -Original Message- From: "Keith Stokes" Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 1:11pm To: "William Herrin" Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" Subject: Re: VPN recommendations? Pfsense on Netgate appliances? I’ve used sever

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Mike Lyon
ebruary 11, 2022 2:02 AM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: VPN recommendations? > > Hi folks, > > Do you have any recommendations for VPN appliances? Specifically: I need to > build a site to site VPNs at speeds between 100mpbs and 1 gbit where all but > one of the sites ar

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Keith Stokes
Pfsense on Netgate appliances? I’ve used several of them, while not for this exact purpose they have done the roles but maybe not the amount of VPN traffic. -- Keith Stokes SalonBiz, Inc On Feb 10, 2022, at 12:02 PM, William Herrin mailto:b...@herrin.us>> wrote: Hi folks, Do you have any

RE: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread David Guo via NANOG
You may try WireGuard and use ddns From: NANOG On Behalf Of William Herrin Sent: Friday, February 11, 2022 2:02 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: VPN recommendations? Hi folks, Do you have any recommendations for VPN appliances? Specifically: I need to build a site to site VPNs at speeds

VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread William Herrin
Hi folks, Do you have any recommendations for VPN appliances? Specifically: I need to build a site to site VPNs at speeds between 100mpbs and 1 gbit where all but one of the sites are behind an IPv4 NAT gateway with dynamic public IP addresses. Normally I'd throw OpenVPN on a couple of Linux boxe

Re: automated site to site vpn recommendations

2016-06-30 Thread Geoff Wolf AB3LS
I have a feeling that most if not all of the requirements you have could be achieved with a Cisco ISR router running some kind of FlexVPN/DMVPN setup back to a network VPN hub. The ISR G3 series has the option of enabling a built in firewall/IPS. You'd need a RADIUS solution to authenticate the VPN

Re: automated site to site vpn recommendations

2016-06-29 Thread Tim Raphael
There is a downside to subscription pricing for the vendor: they don't get the instant cashflow they're used to. I know Cisco seems to be taking a tactic where only some product lines use subscriptions and the others are on a typical enterprise 3-5 year replacements cycle to provide Cisco with t

Re: automated site to site vpn recommendations

2016-06-29 Thread Karl Auer
On Wed, 2016-06-29 at 16:00 -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: > I often wonder if Microsoft will someday make Office365 the only way > to get Office, which if you don't maintain a subscription your > locally installed copy of Word will cease to function. I live for that day. Regards, K. -- ~

Re: automated site to site vpn recommendations

2016-06-29 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/29/16 15:33, Eric Kuhnke wrote: My biggest issue with Meraki is the fundamentally flawed business model, biased in favor of vendor lock in and endlessly recurring payments to the equipment vendor rather than the ISP or enterprise end user. You should not have to pay a yearly subscription fe

Re: automated site to site vpn recommendations

2016-06-29 Thread Spencer Ryan
I treat Meraki like SmartNET. The subscription comes with lifetime support (TAC + Warranty), you do have support on your production network gear don't you? It's not like they trick you going into it either. I for one am a huge fan of the simplicity, it just works. Disclaimer: We use them. ~35 acce

Re: automated site to site vpn recommendations

2016-06-29 Thread Eric Kuhnke
My biggest issue with Meraki is the fundamentally flawed business model, biased in favor of vendor lock in and endlessly recurring payments to the equipment vendor rather than the ISP or enterprise end user. You should not have to pay a yearly subscription fee to keep your in-house 802.11(abgn/ac)

Re: automated site to site vpn recommendations

2016-06-29 Thread Greg Sowell
2016 6:28 PM > To: Karl Auer > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: automated site to site vpn recommendations > > I would second Meraki for the situation you describe. I don't feel that > they are the most capable platform, they're expensive, and don't always > present

RE: automated site to site vpn recommendations

2016-06-29 Thread c b
anks again. > From: r...@tehorange.com > Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 09:03:06 -0400 > Subject: Re: automated site to site vpn recommendations > To: p...@nashnetworks.ca > CC: nanog@nanog.org > > For several of our clients, we use Sophos UTMs coupled with their RED > units. Once reg

Re: automated site to site vpn recommendations

2016-06-29 Thread Rich Testani
For several of our clients, we use Sophos UTMs coupled with their RED units. Once registered with the UTM, the RED unit auto creates an SSL based VPN back to the UTM. The RED unit is managed from the UTM and pulls it's config when it boots. It's similar to the function of Meraki without the direc

Re: automated site to site vpn recommendations

2016-06-29 Thread Shawn L
tled 3" Subject: Re: automated site to site vpn recommendations My biggest issue with Meraki is that their tech staff can run tcpdump on the wired or wireless interface of your Meraki box without having to leave their desk. I have no reason to believe that they are malicious, or in the pay

Re: automated site to site vpn recommendations

2016-06-29 Thread Paul Nash
My biggest issue with Meraki is that their tech staff can run tcpdump on the wired or wireless interface of your Meraki box without having to leave their desk. I have no reason to believe that they are malicious, or in the pay of the NSA, but I am too paranoid to allow their equipment anywhere

RE: automated site to site vpn recommendations

2016-06-28 Thread Richard Greasley
t the cheapest solution, but for sure they get the job done. Regards, Richard. -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Dan Stralka Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 6:28 PM To: Karl Auer Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: automated site to site vpn recommendatio

Re: automated site to site vpn recommendations

2016-06-28 Thread Dan Stralka
I would second Meraki for the situation you describe. I don't feel that they are the most capable platform, they're expensive, and don't always present you with all the information you'd need for troubleshooting. However, the VPN offers great dynamic tunneling, instant-on performance, and are by fa

Re: automated site to site vpn recommendations

2016-06-27 Thread Mikeal Clark
Fortinet has stuff that does this that is non-IT friendly. On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Karl Auer wrote: > On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 13:08 -0700, c b wrote: > > In some cases... > > The words "in some cases" are a problem with any supposedly plug and > play solution. > > > We really could use a

Re: automated site to site vpn recommendations

2016-06-27 Thread Karl Auer
On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 13:08 -0700, c b wrote: > In some cases... The words "in some cases" are a problem with any supposedly plug and play solution. > We really could use a simple solution that you > just flip on, it calls home, and works... ...but still requiring someone to enter credentials of

RE: automated site to site vpn recommendations

2016-06-27 Thread Shawn L
a couple of Z1s the cost isn't too bad. Shawn -Original Message- From: "c b" Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 4:08pm To: "nanog@nanog.org" Subject: automated site to site vpn recommendations Situation: We have salespeople/engineers holding temporary semin

automated site to site vpn recommendations

2016-06-27 Thread c b
Situation: We have salespeople/engineers holding temporary seminars/training/demonstrations in hotel meeting rooms. Requirements: field people need a very plug-n-play, simple, reliable vpn back to corporate offices to present videos/slides/demonstrations. The materials are not accessible via th