Re: remote office vpn products

From: John (jk_at_rt.com)
Date: 03/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 09:50:23 -0800

I have had very good experiences with the TZ170.

John

"MarkC" <mark@mrccit_nospam.com> wrote in message
news:eBCKjdAFEHA.2768@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi Lucian,
> I'm not expert except but for my double master from the "school of hard
> knocks". I can say from documented experience on this group, avoid the
> Linksys products. I use Sonic and Netopia with no problem. I am
currently
> running Sonicwall TZ170 apliances to connect two sites and it works great.
> When using Netopia I used to use their vpn but switched to port forwarding
> to the SBS RAS and it works even better.
>
> The VPN built into SBS2003 out preformed the Netopia 7200R router to
router
> VPN with 5 clients by about 20/1! It is easier to manage and
troubleshoot.
> Just make sure when using the SBS2003 VPN you have a good firewall/router
> (or ISA) doing your forwarding or you have some of the same problems I
have
> had with Linksys.
>
> MarkC
> "Lucian" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:149cc01c413ca$325c7c60$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I will need to connect remote offices via VPN. Do any of
> > you have suggestions? I've been looking at Sonicwall,
> > Netgear, and Linksys, but nothing really jumps out at me.
> > Was wondering if any of you experts had any compelling
> > reasons for or against the different VPN products out
> > there. Also, what criteria do you guys look at?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Lucian
>
>

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