[ale] Firewall/VPN solutions

[H. A. Story]

Sonicwall is web server driven.  How they can support Windows and not 
any other they would have to be referring to the plugins.  You can 
google around and have the logs saved on your Linux machine.  Have you 
tired accessing an old firmware unit with IE 7?  Not fun.

I have started playing with IPCop recently.   You can take a cheap (< 
800MHz Machine) and do VPN. IPCop works with Sonic Wall.  Just make sure 
you have an updated firmware.  We had a sonicwall that would not stop 
rebooting.

Something that bothers me with some of the off the self units.  You are 
licensed for a number of IP addresses on the LAN and VPN tunnels.  You 
want to have more than 5 or 10 machines?  You have to pay the piper.  
And if you are not setting up blocked domains or subscribing to a 
service then they seem only a little better than an off the self $49.99 
DSL router.

Adrin



Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> 	I'm looking for some suggestions on a turn-key firewall/vpn solution
> that provides multi-OS client support. I used to consider Sonicwall in
> that category but their recent versions only support Windows with limit
> Mac and absolutely zero Linux support. I'm fairly certain Cisco can
> support all three but looking for all possible solutions I might have
> overlooked.
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