I've had good experience with the Linksys RV042 model as well.
Mikal Anderson
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From: "Scott Cadillac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 4:18 AM
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: [OT] VPN Enabled Routers
Hi Michael,
That's two votes for the Linksys model.
Thank you.
Scott,
On Friday, February 15, 2008 9:11pm, Michael R M young
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Hi Scott
I can recommend the Linksys RV082. 10/100 8-Port VPN Router (or 4 port
or
16 port)
.dual Internet ports for load balancing and connection redundancy
.Securely connects up to 100 remote office or traveling users to your
office network via VPN
.Advanced SPI firewall protects your PCs from most known Internet
attacks
I currently use it at 2 clients. I can be on all 3 networks at once, me
and
the 2 of them. You must have each client in separate subnets ie change the
X
in 192.168.X.Y.
It has 2 WAN ports, you may not need this, but it's cool anyway.
Runs both major types of VPN and you can have them installed on different
sites and link them all together on the same Net. Remember, IP Links only,
ie Remote Desktop, no NetBio browsing or Sharing.
I am afraid I do not know about MAC VPN clients, but I understand it is
not
an issue, (I would like to know though, if anyone has the answer)!
Cheers
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Cadillac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: February 15, 2008 8:20 AM
To: Witango-Talk
Subject: Witango-Talk: [OT] VPN Enabled Routers
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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