RE: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-27 Thread Jacob
Looks like the Netscreen series is EOL. It is the SSG series now. Price a little more than $500 now...LOL -Original Message- From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Site to Site VPN... What works? I

RE: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-27 Thread Jacob
I have a Netscreen 208 at the office and a Netscreen 5 at home to connect to the office. I think the Netscreen 5 was around $500. You could get two Netscreen 5s and set up a VPN for around $1000. Easy to configure. I do not use VOIP with the VPN set up, so I cannot help you there. -Origina

Re: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-26 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 25 Feb 2009 at 15:33, Matthew W. Ross wrote: > Greetings List, > > I've got a small lab of computers offsite. I want to be able to access them > for support from HQ. While dail-in style VPN works okay, I'm thinking of > getting a real site-to-site network solution working. I do want all traff

RE: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Site to Site VPN... What works? +1, although I will admit to being a Cisco bigot along with Aaron. Shook -Original Message- From: Rohyans, Aaron [mailto:arohy...@dpsciences.com] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:35 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-26 Thread Andy Shook
+1, although I will admit to being a Cisco bigot along with Aaron. Shook -Original Message- From: Rohyans, Aaron [mailto:arohy...@dpsciences.com] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Site to Site VPN... What works? Cisco ASA 5505 @ $350

RE: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-26 Thread Rohyans, Aaron
7134 arohy...@dpsciences.com http://www.dpsciences.com/ -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Site to Site VPN... What works? +1 on this. I've benchmarked the linksys

RE: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-26 Thread N Parr
: Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Site to Site VPN... What works? We have a Cisco 3000 Concentrator at one end and a Cisco 3002 Hardware Client at the other end. Was easy to setup and haven't had any problems with the tunnel dropping. Although, won't b

RE: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-26 Thread Cameron Cooper
Another thing you can try is ClarkConnect. They provide a firewall, content filtering, vpn and the list continues. You can use the free version or pay for a license, which only cost us around $160 for one license. ___ Cameron Cooper IT Director - CompTIA A+ Certified

RE: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-26 Thread Jake Gardner
www.juniper.net Check out their SSG line. The SSG5 might be what you are looking for. I use an SSG140 and have a netscreen25(bought by Juniper) at a remote location. The only issue I've had in well over a year was when the T1 went down at the remote location. We have multiple T's here(Philly) an

RE: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-26 Thread Cameron Cooper
We have a Cisco 3000 Concentrator at one end and a Cisco 3002 Hardware Client at the other end. Was easy to setup and haven't had any problems with the tunnel dropping. Although, won't be able to get it for under $1,000. Could try looking for used Cisco equipment and try that. _

RE: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-26 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
The Sonicwalls do work and are pretty simple to setup too, btw. For free though, I will take a pfsense vm with load balancer. Includes rrd graphs and bandwidth meters and traffic shaping. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-25 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
+1 on this. I've benchmarked the linksys WRT54G against other comparible models before, it it rated at the bottom of the list when depending on hardware encryption performance. I like it as a home routing device, but I dont recommend it for site-to-site when performance needs to be maximized. --

RE: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-25 Thread Derek Lidbom
TP) was around 5Mbps: http://forums.speedguide.net/archive/index.php/t-242584.html -Derek -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Site to Site VPN... What works? I don'

Re: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-25 Thread Steve Ens
rone.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:58 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Site to Site VPN... What works? > > +1 on the SonicWALL. > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftw

Re: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-25 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
rone.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:58 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Site to Site VPN... What works? > > +1 on the SonicWALL. > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftw

Re: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-25 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
riginal Message- > From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:17 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Site to Site VPN... What works? > > SonicWALL TZ 180 - US $340 via NewEgg > Cisco 851 - US $250 (not for the faint of

RE: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-25 Thread Erik Goldoff
o:dlid...@trone.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Site to Site VPN... What works? +1 on the SonicWALL. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~

Re: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-25 Thread Phil Brutsche
I don't know if I would go that route, just on a basis of CPU "horsepower". Most of the options I listed have either hardware cryptographic accelerators or enough horsepower to do it in software. The Linksys WRT54G(L) boxes have very, very weak CPUs and do not possess the necessary hardware accel

Re: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-25 Thread Steve Ens
> From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:17 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Site to Site VPN... What works? > > SonicWALL TZ 180 - US $340 via NewEgg > Cisco 851 - US $250 (not for the faint of heart, IM

RE: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-25 Thread Derek Lidbom
VPN doesn't add complications with that). -Derek -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Site to Site VPN... What works? SonicWALL TZ 180 - US $340 via NewEgg Cisco 851 - US

Re: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-25 Thread Phil Brutsche
SonicWALL TZ 180 - US $340 via NewEgg Cisco 851 - US $250 (not for the faint of heart, IMO the web interface is worthless) Cisco 1711 - under US $100 on eBay - again, not for the faint of heart Old PIII PC with 2 NICs and m0n0wall Matthew W. Ross wrote: > 1. Cheap, as in less than $1000. 2. Easy t

RE: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-25 Thread Erik Goldoff
You looking to setup a vpn tunnel to only one other location ? You could for very low cost use a couple of NetGear FVS firewalls and just have routing tables for each side point to the Netgear for the gateway to the other network... Probably less than 30 minutes setup Erik Goldoff IT Consulta

Re: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-25 Thread Tom Miller
I user Fortinet SOHO units for some small offices on cable modem needing site-to-site VPN to our HQ units. They should speak to other non-Fortinet firewalls just fine since your HQ unit probably isn't Fortinet. They are I think $300- $600 depending on the model and options. The Fortinet devic

RE: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-25 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
+1 pfsense is rock solid IMO -Original Message- From: Jeremy Phillips [mailto:jeremy.phill...@azaleos.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Site to Site VPN... What works? Check out pfSense (www.pfsense.org) - I've had fantastic su

Re: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-25 Thread Kurt Buff
chool District > > > - Original Message - > From: Kurt Buff > [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > To: NT System Admin Issues > [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] > Sent: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 > 16:16:05 -0800 > Subject: Re: Site to Site VPN... What works? &g

RE: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-25 Thread Jeremy Phillips
ginal Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 4:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Site to Site VPN... What works? I re-read my post, yeah, I left some details out: I tried linux hosted OpenVPN and IPSec with varying degre

Re: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-25 Thread Matthew W. Ross
WatchGuard with some success, what issues do you have with it? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:16:05 -0800 Subject:

Re: Site to Site VPN... What works?

2009-02-25 Thread Kurt Buff
IPSec is a suite of protocols, which are implemented by various vendors, in varying degrees of quality. When you said you tried IPSec, what do you mean by that? I'd also like to know what your issues were with OpenVPN, as it's something I'd like to try at some point myself. Anyway, check out the