[GRLUG] VPN Help

[Adam Tauno Williams]

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, 

No, they are not.  They are owned and labeled by Cisco.  "Cisco"
hardware runs the IOS platform.

> 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.
> > 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?

It would be impossible.  Chinsy half-baked crap designed by people who
do not really know what they are doing and then with a dreadful one-off
configuration mechanism slathered on top... there is simply no knowing
what any given field in their configy UI is actually going to do; and
what *assumptions* their crappy software is going to make based on any
configuration options you choose.  You just waste hours and hours
fighting with crap knock-off routers.

> > 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?

Once you leave the IOS platform you are wandering alone in the
wilderness, at night.  Are those wolves I hear in the distance?  Must
have caught the scent of another poor soul using re-branded Linksys
junk.