I just installed a sonicwall last night, they came recommended, and
today we are setting up the vpn. So far it has been pretty painless,
and I have been impressed with the sonicwall documentation and web
interface.
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Robert Garcia
President - BigHead Technology
VP Application Development - eventpix.com
13653 West Park Dr
Magalia, Ca 95954
ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040
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On Feb 15, 2008, at 5:19 AM, Scott Cadillac 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,
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