VPN Server

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

John and Hal,

  The company I work for has a customer that setup 4-5 sites
on a vpn network with these.  The 16 port unit is garbage, it
uses different firmware than the lower port count units and
it locks up all the time.

  I have had personal experience both with the Netgear VPN
devices and the Cisco PIXes.  The PIX are vastly superior.
The Netgears have issues with doing a lot of things at the
same time, and with high bandwidth.

  The truth is that the commercial products that play in this
space are either very good, like the Cisco VPN 3000 but cost
immense amounts of money because they are targeted at large
enterprises, or they are really crappy because they are targeted
at the very very very small offices that don't even have a
server, and the companies that make them know that the small
companies won't buy a network device that costs much over $300.
And most of the smaller VPN hardware boxes I've seen only support
peer-to-peer mode IPSec not client-server mode, despite their
marketing literature.

  Most moderate sized organizations use Windows 2003 with
dual NICs in them as VPN servers.  As a result there's no market
for a stable VPN server hardware box that's targeted at the 25-250
person organization.  This is one area where building a VPN
server on FreeBSD is definitely worth doing.

Ted

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of John Cruz
>Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 2:22 PM
>To: hal
>Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: VPN Server
>
>
>http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?childpagename=US%2FLayo
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>nksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper
>
>Will probably suffice well, they also make a 16 port version @
>http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?childpagename=US%2FLayo
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ommon%2FVisitorWrapper

But if you need more I'd go with the 4 ports and get a gigabit switch to
add on to it. It'll be a little more expensive, but it will be worth it,
knowing that if something happens to a machine the VPN won't suffer as a
result.

-john

hal wrote:
> Any suggestions?
>
> hal
>
> On Mar 9, 2006, at 11:08 AM, John Cruz wrote:
>
>> I'd go with a VPN router, they usually have the best results.
>>
>> hal wrote:
>>> I need FreeBSD VPN server software that will support Win2K, unix,
>>> Mac OS X, and Linux clients.
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