I'll look at the specs and prices on those. Thanks.
Kurt On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 17:27, Philip Brothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/> ~
