Sounds like it was actually working in the last post I read. Sooki is battling with a linksys VPN router in the other thread and it made me shy away a bit. I really, really appreciate you guys taking the time to reply and thanks a lot to you Red 6 for your super informative response. Too many options is always a better problem to have though so I can't complain. Thank you so much for your suggestions guys, although now after almost being sold on the sonicwall, I'm back to weighing my options. Both can tie into Active Directory for authentication for single sign on.ĮDIT: Unless your VPN server is your firewall you will need an additional public IP address or need to setup NAT/PAT on your firewall and an internal, private, IP address on your local LAN. They also are relatively easy to setup and maintain. The PPTP and SSL VPN options in my opinion are the two easiest for end users to use. There is a clientless config option also but as I don't admin the box directly I have no idea how that works. The SSL VPN server acts as the gateway to your internal network.
What happens is user opens a HTTPS session to the SSL VPN server logs in and gets an IP address assigned to the virtual adapter. It installs a virtual interface adapter on the end user's machine that can actually check various settings on the client side before authorizing access to make sure your end users are patched and have current AV definitions, although that functionality probably costs more than you want to spend.
You install the device on your network and the client is your end user's browser. The Juniper SA 700 is a SSL VPN device that is painless to use.
That IP address is on a seperate subnet from your internal network and the PPTP server would act as the router into yoru network for any client remotely connected to the PPTP VPN Server. What would happen is the PPTP client would make a connection to the PPTP VPN Server and the PPTP client would receive a IP address for the PPTP interface adapter. Will it work with a normal router or do i need to buy a real firewall? It doesn't need to have a firewall along with it though right? A lot of the documents I've seen have shown configuration of both the VPN device and firewall appliance like you will always have both installed: Thanks again for the suggestions, I'll have to look into this more but I like everything I read about that sonicwall device. I'm thinking this is probably the thing to go with(although Sooki did end up getting the very much cheaper linksys vpn working). Is VPN over SSL different in any significant way? Can anyone explain how their netextender technology works(just kinda curious how it does it without additional software). Luckily google tells me that this just came out and is designed just for setups like mine:Īre there any gotchas I should be watching out for.
I know that IPSEC using windows is an option but I also know IPSEC is a bit confusing and we're using a different operating systems (2k, xp home and pro) so I don't know if I feel like starting down that path, especially since I think I'm leaving and the next person would probably rather have a plug-and-play setup.īut that's not enough! - View image here:. I'm not sure if all VPNs are kinda flaky or just that symantec one, but I would rather not revisit my many hours of re-entering the exact same settings hoping that will be the time the actually work.
So yeah, I would like something that just works with software that doesn't suck.
We need it because stupid Intuit decided to release a ridiculously crappy upgrade for quickbooks that now basically necessitates a windows server and access to the local network in order to utilize multi-user access(currently I'm running a linux samba server and using putty to tunnel them in, but the new version doesn't like that setup). Would that be a good fit for our size/needs? Some people have recommended the PIX 501 by cisco: We used to have a similar symantec device and it was a PITA and the software really sucked, so I wouldn't mind finding a different brand. It would probably be something in this range:īut that also probably does more than we need. Is anyone out there using or able to recommend a good VPN Access Server(router) that would for a small office with 5-10 remote users(not usually all concurrent). I tried searching around and found some information, but not really an answer to this question specifically. I'm sorry if this is one of those questions everyone hates.