All, This is probably just whining, so bear with me - though if you have any insight into the technical issues, I'd surely like to hear it.
So, I'm putting up a SonicWall SSL VPN unit in our UK office. They're way out in the boonies - about 50 SW of London, in the middle of farms and whatnot - and have a crappy PPPOA ADSL connection. Fortunately, BT got them a /29, and I've got a nice firewall for their office, and they can do OWA and RPC/HTTPS to their Exchange box. The Netgear router (it's a DG834, installed about 6-7 years ago, and I've turned off NAT) is also the PPPOA modem, and has a dynamic address on the ADSL connection with the /29 sitting the LAN side. I put an alias on the firewall, and the DG834 sees both the main IP address for the firewall and the alias (showing the MAC address as the same for both, and different than the MAC address for the DG834), when I query the admin web page for devices that are attached to the LAN, and it pings the firewall's external addresses just fine, though it doesn't report back the MAC address when pinging.. We've also got an IPSec VPN between our offices, so I can connect to the SSL VPN unit over that. Here's the problem: When I try to connect via the public IP address - https://aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd - I get what looks like the browser popup for the DG834, not the Sonicwall login page, although I can't actually log in, probably because of the restrictions I've put in place. I've got an email in to the part-time IT guy at the site, so that I can get the serial number of the unit, in the hopes that by getting that and registering the unit, I can get the latest firmware for it, and see if that fixes the problem. But, failing that, does anyone have a recommendation for a PPPoA router to replace this thing - something that will actually be a router, and not steal packets destined for other units on the subnet? Thanks for your indulgence, Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
