VPN appliances (was Re:Looking for someone with Cisco PIX experience)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 02:28:29PM -0400, Paul Nash wrote:
> I have used DLink's small routers (DI-808 IIRC), which supportthe 
> MS-PPTP client *but* have to have the default route on the remote 
> network as they cannot assign IPs on the host network for some reason.  
> They are not the most reliable in the world, but work OK.

MS-PPTP is known to be insecure, so support for that is useless.

> I used a Linksys box (RVL200 IIRC) with SSL VPN more recently, and the 
> client is overjoyed.  It only works with Windows/IE, but is easy to set 
> up and trivial to use -- point a browser at the device to get the login 
> page, enter username & password to start the tunnel via an Active-X 
> control, close the browser window to kill the tunnel.
> 
> I think that the Linksys RV042 supports MS-PPTP connections, if you 
> *really* want them.

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Len Sorensen
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