[ale] Firewall/VPN solutions

[H. A. Story]

Yeah,  Their VPN doesn't really follow IPSec standards I think.  And 
paying for a frimware upgrade.  That is another thing that burns me.  
Most of the time you are just getting a patch.


Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> H. A. Story wrote:
>   
>> 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've got a client with a Sonicwall unit that we tried to get Linux VPN
> client to connect to it... First we were told my Sonicwall sales to
> upgrade to the "enhanced firmware" version... Then Sonicwall support
> told us it wasn't supported for anything other than their Windows
> client. Yes their interface is web server driven but their VPN
> interoperability is non-existent... Client told them to stuff it on the
> PO for the enhanced firmware upgrade and we backed it down to the basic
> firmware and just used SSH tunnels to the box behind it.
>
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