[Soekris] Soekris 5501 and pfSense with VPN

2008-07-11 Thread Kenneth Fribert
Hi All Being brand new to the world of soekris, I'm sort of stumbling around in the dark, and I hope somebody can enlighten me :-) I'm considering 5501-70 board for use here in Lynge at our mainsite. We in the IT department would probably like to have a VPN connection to the site. So the

Re: [Soekris] Soekris 5501 and pfSense with VPN

2008-07-11 Thread Nils Vogels
A lot depends on the bandwidth you are planning on using inside the VPN. I'm using a 4801 with pfsense, running openvpn, and a few tunnels to access some RDP sessions while I am away from home work great. Sustained network traffic of a couple of MBit/s is a bit more troublesome, in my experience.

Re: [Soekris] Soekris 5501 and pfSense with VPN

2008-07-11 Thread Kenneth Fribert
Hi Guys Thanks for the fast and very informative feedback. We have a 10mbit fiber here which will be the one used for VPN connections. We provide services for our employees through our Citrix solution, but the IT department (specifically ME :-), and a few external consultants) could need

Re: [Soekris] Soekris 5501 and pfSense with VPN

2008-07-11 Thread Marc Balmer
* Kenneth Fribert wrote: Hi All Being brand new to the world of soekris, I'm sort of stumbling around in the dark, and I hope somebody can enlighten me :-) I'm considering 5501-70 board for use here in Lynge at our mainsite. We in the IT department would probably like to have a VPN

Re: [Soekris] Soekris 5501 and pfSense with VPN

2008-07-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
So the question is, will the 5501-70 be tough enough to handle a few VPN connections, or do we need to add the vpn1411, and will the vpn1411 even work with VPN in pfSense (IPsec, IPSec is the way to fly. What speed WAN? Above 1024kbps? ~BAS ___

[Soekris] net5501 Successor

2008-07-11 Thread Guillaume FORTAINE
Hello, Do You plan any new Soekris Board in a near future (= 6 months) ? I look forward to Your Answer, Best Regards, Guillaume FORTAINE I have root @ Google ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com

Re: [Soekris] net5501 Successor

2008-07-11 Thread Sargun Dhillon
Guillaume FORTAINE wrote: Hello, Do You plan any new Soekris Board in a near future (= 6 months) ? I look forward to Your Answer, Best Regards, Guillaume FORTAINE I have root @ Google ___ Soekris-tech mailing list

[Soekris] combios

2008-07-11 Thread Steve Clark
where is combios 1.33c The requested URL /software/b5501_133c.bin was not found on this server. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] net5501 Successor

2008-07-11 Thread Guillaume FORTAINE
Sargun Dhillon wrote: Guillaume FORTAINE wrote: Hello, Do You plan any new Soekris Board in a near future (= 6 months) ? I look forward to Your Answer, Best Regards, Guillaume FORTAINE I have root @ Google ___ Soekris-tech mailing

Re: [Soekris] Soekris 5501 and pfSense with VPN

2008-07-11 Thread Joao Pedras
Kenneth, I use it either with OpenBSD+IPSec or OpenBSD+OpenVPN with no issues. My experiences are similar to the ones described by others in this thread. I would just like to add that with OpenVPN you can setup load balancing of connections in order to try to spread those connections through

Re: [Soekris] Latest net5501 bios

2008-07-11 Thread Wolfram Schlich
* James Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-07-11 02:39]: I noticed version 1.33c was recently posted. Since the changelog hasn't been updated since 1.33, I was wondering what changed in 1.33b and 1.33c? Thanks. See http://www.soekris.com/Issue0007-8.htm -- Regards, Wolfram Schlich [EMAIL