From: badbullmoose@hotmail.com
As far as I know the local and remote ipsec identifiers need only be the
same (but reversed of course) at both ends.
Moose
"Pranav" wrote in message
news:nFaZa.2018$Nf3.118@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> Thank you alex, I tried that, and it works! Actually, I can also leave
that
> field blank, and it still works! I also realized that I wasn't running to
> new firmware, so I upgraded to v1.4, and am now able to run in aggressive
> mode...
>
> I still don't know what the the Local and Remote IPSec identifiers do. Do
I
> put the IP addresses there? Currently, in the Netgear's config, I have the
> router's static domain name (ourrouter.ourdomain.com) as the Local IPSec
> Identifier, and the 0.0.0.0 as the Remote Identifier. It works fine when
set
> up like that, but should I be putting in secret words as IPSec
Identifiers?
> It also works with the words, which is what I am now using...
>
> 1. What's the difference between Main Mode, and Aggressive Mode, and which
> one should I be running?
>
> 2. We have a DHCP server on my network, and I need to be able have a
virtual
> IP assigned to my laptop. How do I go about doing that? Currently, I think
> it is still using the WAN IP that was dynamically assigned during the
> dial-up session. I can still ping all of the computers on the network.
When
> I try to configure SSH Sentinel to use DHCP over IPSec, the connection
> fails...
>
> 3. Are there any good VPN Clients besides the recommended program made by
> SafeNet? I know SSH has stopped selling to end-users...
>
> Thanks,
> Pranav.
>
> "Alex de la Cuesta" wrote in message
> news:i4_Ya.614$pn3.214@nwrdny01.gnilink.net...
> > Hi!
> > I haven't tried this one yet but you can define in the Netgear box the
> > remote IP as 0.0.0.0 as it have a dynamic addresing. Also set the remote
> as
> > single PC. Other setting remains the same.
> > Goodluck!
>
>
>
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