Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:58:32 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <john@cruzweb.net>, "hal" <hl700@cc.usu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: VPN Server Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEICFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <4410AA6C.70806@gmail.com>
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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@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of John Cruz >Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 2:22 PM >To: hal >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: VPN Server > > >http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?childpagename=US%2FLayo >ut&packedargs=c%3DL_Product_C2%26cid%3D1118334795358&pagename=Li >nksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper > >Will probably suffice well, they also make a 16 port version @ >http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?childpagename=US%2FLayo ut&packedargs=c%3DL_Product_C2%26cid%3D1123638171453&pagename=Linksys%2FC 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release Date: 3/10/2006
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