On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:40:33 -0400, Tony Graziano wrote:
> ipsec is a vpn tunnel type. you could also do l2tp or openvpn with pfsense.

Never played with ipsec but have heard/read the term countless times.

> in your case you need a tunnel type ans ipsec take 2 minutes to setup with
> pfsense at both sides.
> what you do with it is totally up to you.

I'll set up a little test and see how things go some time soon. Sounds like a 
solution for other things that come up now and then too.

Thanks very much.



> On Sep 14, 2011 4:29 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I don't recall seeing IPSEC mentioned but it's an idea.
>>
>>> vpn and host use the other end. we do that all the time. it doesnt
>>> matter if you are trying to use the gateway, or sipx. it's the same
>>> "network" as private, but routed.
>>>
>> I love it. I'll have to set up a test and give it a try.
>>
>>> with an ipsec connection your two networks can't overlap. you'll also
>>> want to create a route at each end to the network it already has, so
>>> dns lookups from the remote phones can resolve through the sipx host.
>>> it also means tftp will work for phone provisioning if you configure
>>> the tftp server in the remote firewall dhcp settings. it's all very
>>> slick and works well.
>>>
>> This was something that was kinda confusing when I first started using
>> sipx. The packets were going back to the main router until I realized I
>> needed to tell sipx to use the pfsense box as it's gateway.
>>
>> I think all of the phones are polycom 550's but not absolutely sure.
>>
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