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   Message 776 of 2,349   
   Larry Riffle to deus no omocha   
   Re: Good, cheap VPN/firewall/router advi   
   04 Feb 04 08:00:52   
   
   From: ljriffle@adelphia.net   
      
   In addition, Netgear support would have to improve dramatically to get   
   up to lousy.   
      
   My FWAG114 won't do what you want due to a bug they won't address.   
   Contrary to the documentation you have to hard code specific VPN   
   endpoints. I don't know if other products share the problem.   
      
   deus no omocha wrote:   
   > I work with a consulting company that supports small businesses. We   
   > are looking for a good, cheap VPN/firewall/router solution. The   
   > business we are selling it to needs to be able to vpn tunnel to a   
   > Cisco router, and also wants to give some employees remote vpn access.   
   > The remote access vpn needs to use a simple software client. Basically   
   > we want to be able to install something on a user's laptop and just   
   > tell them to double-click this icon on their desktop to connect to the   
   > office from home (no power users here).   
   > We have tried a LinkSys BEFVP41, but found out there is no easy way to   
   > create the simple remote user connection. The remote access vpn setup   
   > was horribly complicated even for us, much less the intended users.   
   > We are looking at a Netgear FVS318, but browsing some newsgroups it   
   > seems that it has troubles tunneling to Cisco routers (really, trouble   
   > tunneling to anything but another FVS318). Is this true?   
   > Are there any good solutions to this problem that might be in a small   
   > business's budget?   
   > Thanks for any input!   
   >   
   > deus   
      
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