From: stephen_hope@xx.ntlworld.com   
      
   "deus no omocha"  wrote in message   
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   > 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.   
      
   if you are using Cisco routers, firewalls or VPN servers, then the software   
   client is available at nominal cost (ie. free in some cases, media pricing   
   otherwise).   
      
   Easiest box to use is the VPN server rather than a router or firewall.   
      
   > The remote access vpn needs to use a simple software client.   
      
   use the cisco client. simple policy push, scripting support and lots of   
   other nice bits, such as firewall integration.   
      
   and cisco support is pretty good.   
      
   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).   
      
   if you want simple setup and easy support, VPNs are still at the stage where   
   "everything from the same supplier" makes life much easier.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   cisco hardware boxes are not cheap compared to comsumer routers, but the   
   SOHO routers and vpn hardware clients can be set up to have all config   
   "pushed" from a VPN server such as a VPN3000 or a router. That way all the   
   complex config is at the central site where it belongs.   
      
   > 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?   
      
   i have used cisco VPN client tunnelling through a netgear router of various   
   flavours - not tried the built in client.   
      
   > 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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   Stephen Hope - remove xx from email to reply   
      
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