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RE: [FW1] Sonicwall VPN FYI - Sweet Cheap little VPN
Hi
Tim,
Actually no, Pac Bell is Pacific Bell, which is our
friendly incompetent semi-monopoly supplying telephone and DSL in
California.
Ian
Sorry can't help asking -
is this Pac Bell you mention Packard Bell ? - many of their PC models are
&*% and their support is totally useless - intruiging that they could
support (or even spell) DSL !
Is
there a $5 per minute support line for this ? ;-)
Tim Higgins
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:[email protected]]
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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