With regards to SonicWalls, I've had recent experience with them, and after 3 RMAs in a row (as requested by THEIR tech support) and never once being able to get the thing to work properly (with their tech support help even). I'll accept the fact that I may have been doing something odd, but I can't see what. Bottom line is that I will not be recommending SonicWall in the near future. However, it's rare that I need to recommend that type of hardware, so this probably is a non-issue.
As for Brian's VPN, I know a bit about what he's trying to do, and I'm not sure if IPCop is a proper solution. He needs a VPN server sitting behind two firewalls (external, and internal, with DMZ between), or even sitting in DMZ. These firewalls do more than IPCop was designed for (multiple external IPs - yes I know IPCop can do this, with some tweaking...). Is it possible to run IPCop as a firewall only? If so, is it feasible to route VPN traffic through the two firewalls to the IPCop box? How sever is this for a security hole? The only other option I can see is to put the VPN server in the DMZ, and allow all traffic from that box through the internal firewall... another possible security hole.... Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 2:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) VPN Since the other responsed weren't overly detailed, I'll just add that it has never gone down unexplainably for us in the past year. It's rock solid, and we do use it Corporately. I've advised we replace the remaining SonicWalls with it, but they work well too, so obviously replacing something that works well is pretty low priority. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Horncastle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 1:49 PM Subject: (clug-talk) VPN > Hi, > > Anyone ever setup Linux as a VPN server? > > Regards, > > Brian > >
