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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sipx-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/ _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/
