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 s

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 _

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 V

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 so

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.

[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 ques