Re: Linux v Dedicated NAT routers - secure remote differences

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Date: 09/29/02 

Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 10:49:22 +0200

Alan,

most cheap routers dont run Linux due to memory requirements.

You can get the router, and if you figure it out you can return it to the
store, so it may endup costing you only the time to the store and back.

You need to understand what type of VPN is it (identify client product and
version) and then maybe some folks who use that stuff can help.

I cna offer two guesses:

If it uses PPTP, then your Linux may not forward GRE for some reason.

If it uses IPsec, I beleive there are IPsec variants that need special
handling to work through NAT.

The commercial NAT routers have special code to support VPNs, while your
Linux may have not.

hth.

"Alan Chandler" <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote in message
news:qdyl9.1175$M14.14814355@news-text.cableinet.net...
> Leonid Rosenboim wrote:
>
> >
> > Sorry I pissed you off, that wasn't really my intention.
> >
>
> Sorry from me too - I rather jumped back at you.
>
> My main concern is to get my problem solved. And being a cheapskate sort
of
> guy, don't want to spend money on something without knowing that it will
> work. I've been too long in the computer business (I started about 35
> years ago) to realise that the problem that you originally thought it was
> is normally not the actual problem. My approach to this is to understand
> in detail how something might be working and why before investing too much
> in a solution.
>
> The problem I am faced with here is intriguing because
>
> a) It works for my collegues and not for me, and
> b) I believe that most of these router type devices have linux inside
anyway
> c) Therefore the probablity is that my linux server should work as well if
I
> configure it correctly
> d) Therefore it could be either a problem with my linux configuration or a
> problem with my windows configuation, and therefore
> e) At the moment I am asking for information - which so far nobody, after
> asking in a number of forums, has been able to give me.
>
> So I may well follow your suggestion - but I want to get more into the
> theorising of what could be the issues first.
> --
> Alan Chandler

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