Re: VPN Appliance that works with Microsoft?

[Brian Ford <brford () cisco com>]

John and Tony;

Sorry.  I must have missed the initial message from Tony.

The Cisco VPN3000 concentrators work just fine with Microsoft's Windows 
2000 IPSec implementation.  There is plenty of supporting info on our web 
site at http://www.cisco.com.

Regards,

Brian


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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:43:49 -0800 (PST)
> From: Jonn Martell <martell () ucs ubc ca>
> To: Tony Chryseliou <TonyC () bgls com>
> Cc: <firewall-wizards () nfr com>
> Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] VPN Appliance that works with Microsoft?
>
>
> You might want to consider running Sonicwall or Watchguard with the VPN
> both at your HQ and the remote office.  Nothing works with Microsoft's
> proprietary implementation of IPSec (as far as I know). Unfortunately,
> Microsoft is continuing the "embrace and enhance" stuff. :-(
>
> Sonicwall has a wide range of products with the remote office versions
> costing less than $1K, they have also added "High Availability" for
> firewall redundancy and load balancing.  This is fairly recent and we
> haven't had a chance to look at it.
>
> We are currently in the process of evaluating Sonicwall (& Watchguard) and
> so far, I'm very impressed (especially with the latest code).
>
> Maintaining the remote Sonicwalls is possible via the Global Management
> Systems.  I agree, you wouldn't want to support non-appliances at remote
> sites, there is much less that can go wrong with the appliances.
>
> If anyone has a complete evaluation of what appears to be the two leaders
> (Sonicwall / Watchguard) in this area (firewall appliances for the
> Small/Medium size businesses), please let me know. It might save me some
> effort :)
>
> My feeling at this point is that Sonicwall has a much better set of
> features and products but it seems all the trade mags are concentrating on
> Watchguard....
>
> On a somewhat related note: Does anyone have any first hand experience
> with Checkpoint's "SmallOffice" based products.  I haven't seen it live
> yet but the manuals from intrusion.com don't give a warm feeling, seems to
> be a hurried product to fill a gap with Checkpoint products (remote office
> protection) but it seems that a LOT of important features are missing (in
> comparison with the full Checkpoint product); maybe it's just the
> manual...
>
>    Jonn Martell, UBC
>
>  On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Tony Chryseliou wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:25:32 -0500
> > From: Tony Chryseliou <TonyC () bgls com>
> > To: firewall-wizards () nfr com
> > Subject: [fw-wiz] VPN Appliance that works with Microsoft?
> >
> > We're considering setting up an RRAS server to do VPN work and would 
> like to
> > know if a VPN appliance (Sonic, Watchguard, etc.) out there works with L2TP
> > with IPSec encryption. The idea is to establish SOHO to HQ VPNs, but we
> > don't want to have a full blown server in each office to maintain.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > TC
> > ______________________________________________

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