RE: [FW1] Sonicwall VPN FYI - Sweet Cheap little VPN

[Ian Campbell <ianc@FW1-NOSPAMbuzzsaw.com>]

I too have installed these in a couple of sites and they work great and
they're fast. Highly recommended.

One other question for you CA Pac Bell DSL users though; what brands of
small cheap routers that do NAT (for NAT'ing a small home net to 1 public
IP) that work with Pac Bell's DSL that also work with SR has anyone used? I
got a Cisco 675 through work and spent hours trying to get the thing working
at home, but no dice; the WAN interface just would not come up. Finally I
managed to speak with someone at Cisco about it (Pac Bell was of course less
than useless on this), and they said that it can only be used with an ISP
that has Cisco DSLAM's downstream. Thus, there was no way the 675 would work
with Pac Bell.

Anyone? I don't want to ask Pac Bell because I'm sure they're incompetent,
but I'm hoping I'll hear from someone else on who's actually used something
successfully here. The Linksys is quite cheap...

Thanks for any help,

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Hitchcock [mailto:danh@xylo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 12:38 PM
To: FW-1 Mailing List (E-mail)
Subject: [FW1] Sonicwall VPN FYI - Sweet Cheap little VPN



Just wanted to share a piece of information for anyone looking for a really
low cost 3DES small branch office solution:

I picked up a SonicWall TELE/2 (retails for about $550) - has a nice Web
GUI, does NAT and DHCP, has remote secure management, etc. - AND it works
like a charm with FW1 4.1SP2.  I just worked through SonicWall's config doc
and our site-to-site VPN was up and running.

If anyone has any comments on SonicWall's long term reliability, support,
etc., I'd love to hear from you, as I just brought this connection up.
Looks like a very sweet little VPN solution, and even cheaper than
Checkpoint's SmallOffice solutions (although SmallOffice gives nice features
like FW1 GUI management, much more granular policies, etc.)

Dan Hitchcock
CCNA, MCSE
Network Engineer
Xylo, Inc.The work/life solution for corporate thought leaders



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