[GRLUG] VPN Help

[Greg Folkert]

On Sun, 2013-08-04 at 11:45 -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Aug 2013, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 
> > I assume you mean Linksys RVN42s.  My advice is to junk them and pick-up
> > a couple real routers (Cisco 28xx, you can get them cheap on E-Bay).
> >
> Actually, they are Cisco now, and were the only router with a reasonable
> price point that had full VPN capability. The other factor is physical
> space - no room for rack-size, so 2800s would not work.

They are the Linksys Junk, never has had any real quality to them.

Didn't you hear, Cisco is spinning off linksys now.

> > Then I can e-mail you a config you can can cut-n-paste into the routers
> > and they will work, reliably, every time, all the time.  Performance
> > will be great.
> >
> That would be great - how much of a problem would be the 'translation' to
> a GUI?
> 
> > The Linksys stuff is toy junk with lousy, if any, documentation.
> >
> There doesn't seem to be ANY VPN documentation or HowTos for Cisco other
> than ASA?

That is because it is not Cisco proper... only the name is slapped onto
the Linksys crap.

My advice is get a couple $100 computers and make the VPN over each of
them with OpenSwan. It works  very well and has none (that I have seen)
of the stability issues I've seen with the Linksys stuff.

Plus, it is very easy to setup, especially when using a PSK.
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