Scott, A hardware VPN solution that I've had a lot of luck with, is the Netscreen IP/Sec Products from Juniper Networks
For example, we've got one of these little boxes at our data center, our main office and the home offices of myself and the owner, everything is tunnelled to eachother, and it works great. http://www.juniper.net/products_and_services/firewall_slash_ipsec_vpn/netscreen_5_series/index.html I've successfully setup tunnels to other clients (with different hardware on their end) These devices are very affordable, and "relatively" easy to setup. They're not nearly as complicated as setting up some other software based or cisco solutions that i've come across, but naturally because they are more complicated than a simple dsl router they're a step above the setup of those in difficulty. Also, for what it's worth, i knew nothing about IPSec or VPN setup, and was able to setup everything on my end by following documentation, and maybe a little bit of a push in the right direction from the vendor we buy them from. /John On 2/15/08, Scott Cadillac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > If anybody is so inclined, I'm looking for recommendations for a VPN enabled > router that handles out-bound tunneling (not pass-thru). > > I don't profess to be a network person, so I'll explain the best I can, so > warning - I'm sure this post will be wordy :-b.... > > I have a particular customer whom I've been doing periodic contract work for > over 6 years. With them I have to use VPN client software to connect to their > network when I deploy something or need to work on their servers. > > With their particular type of VPN connection, once I do the VPN logon my > workstation becomes a part of their network, which inherits a new IP from > their internal LAN. Once I'm connected my workstation is unable to connect to > my own local network. Which is highly inconvenient of course, but I can deal > with that for the most part by running the VPN inside a virtual machine. > > If I did all my development work on one machine I wouldn't have a problem. > But my setup these days includes the following: > > ~ A heavy-duty desktop running WinXP for the Visual Studio IDE. > > ~ 6 Virtual Machines for browser testing (running on the desktop, which are > separate machines as far as VPN is concerned). > > ~ A Mac Mini for more browser testing. > > ~ Another workstation with Visual Studio for my coding buddy Mark, who also > works in my office, he's not a witango guy ;-) > > ~ And a dedicated Windows 2003 Server for hosting all our code and SQL 2000 > & 2005 databases. > > ~ Oh, and a 1TB Network Attached Storage device that I use for backups. > > I also have 3 other computers on my local network, but those aren't used for > work. > > Anyway, since starting a recent job with this particular customer things are > getting more involved where we need a dedicated VPN connection from both our > workstations and now from the server (which is going to run an automated > database sync routine we're going to build). > > So, is there a router that can handle all VPN (client?) connections to my > customer's external network? Including the following features? > > ~ Automatic transparent VPN connections from any of my local machines. > > ~ Still allow connections to my other network resources? > > ~ Still allow inbound access to my webserver and Remote Desktop (port > forwarding from the outside). > > ~ And still allow out-bound connections to other non-customer external > addresses (the internet). > > Note, my internet service includes 5 static IP addresses, if that makes a > difference. > > So, any ideas? > > Thank you for taking the time to read this. > > Scott, > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > -- /John ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
