Re: VPN, NAT router recommendations ?

From: E. (bellyup_at_the.bar)
Date: 10/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:48:47 +1000

grubertm wrote:
> My apologies that this is not about "real" firewalls, but I trust you
> guys more than a regular networking group.
>
> We are currently running an older version of Kerio's firewall software
> on a PC and rather than buying a new version I would prefer replacing
> the PC with a hardware solution to give some protection to our 10
> desktops. What I am looking for is a router that supports NAT and VPN,

"supports VPN" is a pretty wide open statement. What do you want the VPN
to do, and between where? Is it a site-to-site VPN? Mobile Users? What
applications/sessions/data transfer do you plan to run over it?

> but also has extensive filtering capabilities, similar to what you'd
> find with iptables or Kerio.

Depends on the number of rules and complexity of those rules, and
whether you want content inspection.
E.