Re: VPN Firewall for new webserver
From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.org)
Date: 11/11/04
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:02:55 GMT
In article <2vhvlfF2lshjsU1@uni-berlin.de>, jasee@btinternet.com says...
> Leythos wrote:
> > In article <2vh4ddF1c1v0uU1@uni-berlin.de>, jasee@btinternet.com
> > says...
> >> Leythos wrote:
> >>> In article <2vfo9mF2kb69cU1@uni-berlin.de>, jasee@btinternet.com
> >>> says...
> >>>> There are some differences between the Linksys models in the UK
> >>>> (for the same model numbers!) I've used the BEFSX41 as a VPN
> >>>> endpoint for a Watch guard Server: it proved highly unreliable
> >>>> where the MVPN client running on a W2K machine through a simpler
> >>>> router worked fine. In the UK, from what I've read the Linksys
> >>>> routers either work well or not at all!
> >>>
> >>> Interesting, with the Linksys units, I didn't know there was a
> >>> difference in firmware based on country.
> >>
> >> Yes, there is if you look at the firmare for the US and UK, there
> >> are two different versions
> >>
> >>> Was your connection via a T1
> >>> or some other type?
> >>
> >> No, ordinary ADSL
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I own a WatchGuard Firebox II personally and have a bunch of II and
> >>> III and even a couple SOHO6tc units installed around the country,
> >>> the Linksys units have been painless (the BEFSX41 and the BEFVP41)
> >>> when making the connections and then the rules for their subnets.
> >>>
> >>> Could your problems have been MTU related?
> >>
> >> I didn't get that far (it was set at the default)
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Did you experience a connection problem with the WAN or just the
> >>> IPSec problem?
> >>
> >> The Linksys spontaneously rebooted several times after I'd
> >> configured it for the Wan only.
> >> Others (in the UK) seem to have similar problems with this and other
> >> lInksys routers. I get the feeling that if you're prepared to accept
> >> the defaults then it simply works. However if (for instance) you
> >> don't want to use DHCP then there can be problems.
> >
> > Do you mean DHCP on the WAN side or LAN side?
> >
> > If DHCP on the LAN side, you can leave it enabled, set the scope to
> > 100~ 150, and that still leaves you with almost 200 addresses you can
> > use in a fixed IP mode on the LAN side.
>
> But why set dhcp to work for some ips. Why not simply disable it entirely
> and use fixed ips?
Because I thought that you might need to use it? Also, if you are using
DHCP, you can do an IPCONFIG /ALL and get the gateway, mask, and DNS
information so that you can use it when you assign your fixed IP's.
> > One more thing, it seems like the last firmware update, at least in
> > the US, was a little unstable, the current one seems to be stable. I
> > found this latest updates seems to be rock stable.
>
> The truoble is we are talking (probably) at cross purposes as I think (for
> some reason) the routers are different, for instance the latest UK upgrade
> for the BEFSX41 is BEFSR41V3_v1.05_code.bin (239,616 bytes) whereas the
> latest upgrade for the US BEFSX41 is BEFSX41_V1.50.18_code.bin (1,937,408
> bytes)
I was not talking about BEFSR41, although it was unstable before the
last update. The latest BEFSX41 update, that I loaded from their site,
works and seems quite stable.
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