Scott, We have used both Cisco, Sonicwall, GNAT and Checkpoint here. My question about what they are using is the one I feel is most important. There can be a lot of incompatibilities, like anything in software, so If they have Cisco network then I am sure the linksys will work, but I admit we haven't tried it. The syntax maybe harder but if they have Cisco (and probably have some Cisco guys there who can send over a appropriate config) I would recommend the new ASA firewalls which I think list at about $600. Here is some experience we have (all second hand but I can tell you that people tried to do this and it didn't work out of the box): Older Sonic don't seem to want to VPN to cisco GNAT firewalls don't want to VPN to Cisco or Sonicwall GNAT to Sonicwall was Iffy Checkpoint (expensive) to Cisco and Sonciwall works.
In regards to the Witango announcement sadly we had to move on. We offered Witango (which I thought were interesting business models) but it turned out too expensive. We essentially but a full ISP server in a hotel and when using a hyperthreaded processor the price was well out weighing SQL server we had no choice but to move on. Also for all the money we put in we could never get great support on issues we had with Witango 5.5, IIS and SQL Server 2000 and Windows 2003. We had rock solid system with Windows 2000, SQL Server 2000 and IIS but couldn't get a fair amount of support. Regards, Christian -----Original Message----- From: Mikal Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 2:16 PM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: [OT] VPN Enabled Routers I've had good experience with the Linksys RV042 model as well. Mikal Anderson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Cadillac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <witango-talk@witango.com> 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, > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > > > _____ > > << ella for Spam Control >> has removed 20965 Spam messages and set aside > 28023 Newsletters for me > You can use it too - and it's FREE! www.ellaforspam.com > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf -- No virus found in this incoming message. 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