For a replacement check out the Cisco 800 series routers. The 857 or 877 should do the trick. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps380/prod_models_comparison.html
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
