Re: VPN Solution suggestions

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From: TK (totoro_orotot_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 14:39:40 -0400

Hello Mike,

A little off topic, since you arent dealing with EXACTLY this
scenerio .. but ...

I had no success with the LinkSys products and VPN. An MS technical
support person and myself finally troubleshot it down to Gre47 not
being allowed through the router. We contacted Linksys via a
conference call and the Linksys people kept telling us to forward port
47, to which both of us yelled at them that Gre47 has NOTHING to do
with port 47 .. however, that was the only response we got from
Linksys. My recommendation, go straight Cisco (probably cost you
something in the whereabouts of $1000 CDN) route.

FYI, I had read some documents about older versions of firmware
allowing Gre47 through, however, this was sometime ago and I did not
follow up with it.

Just my two cents worth ..

TK

On Fri, 21 May 2004 10:02:56 -0700, "MIke"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I actually have two questions. The first is dealing with
>SBS2K and WinGate. Is this a good solution for a VPN or is
>their something better? My next question has to do with
>SBS2K3 with 1 NIC setup and a Linksys BEFVP41 VPN router.
>Do I just setup the router and allow access to the LAN or
>do I have to setup anything in SBS2K3? I figure that ISA
>Server won't be a problem since I'm using the 1 NIC setup.
>All recommendations are welcome, however, I must add that
>the 1 NIC setup was the work of another consultant who
>setup the wiring closet in such a way that I cannot safely
>or even neatly implement a 2 NIC setup. I have informed
>the client that this is not the recommended setup, but
>their response is to work with what is available.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>MIke

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