Re: VPN recommendations?

[Matt Harris <matt () netfire net>]

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On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 12:03 PM William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Do you have any recommendations for VPN appliances? Specifically: I need
> to build a site to site VPNs at speeds between 100mpbs and 1 gbit where all
> but one of the sites are behind an IPv4 NAT gateway with dynamic public IP
> addresses.
>
> Normally I'd throw OpenVPN on a couple of Linux boxes and be happy but my
> customer insists on a network appliance. Site to site VPNs using IPSec and
> static IP addresses on the plaintext side are a dime a dozen but traversing
> NAT and dynamic IP addresses (and automatically re-establishing when the
> service goes out and comes back up with different addresses) is a hard
> requirement.

For OpenVPN, I like the Netgate boxes running pfsense. Works great, super
easy integrations with stuff like AC/LDAP/radius/etc for auth, frr and
others for your routing, etc. This is probably your best bet.

For IPSec I tend to stick to Juniper SRX boxes.

Good luck!