Re: [PLUG] Speaking of VPN [WAS: linux-friendly router with printserver?]

[Chad Vogelsong <chad@vogelsong.net>]

You could do exactly what you said with these devices.  At $70 (CDW), they have 
shown to be quite stable devices for VPN connectivity.  We use them for our work 
from home users to connect their Cisco IP phone & laptop to.

They don't work very well behind another home router, so they have to be used as 
the main home router.  We just partition the VPN so only the MAC addresses of 
the laptop & IP phone can  use the vpn tunnel.

All other computers on the network (kids computer, TiVO, etc.) get our internal 
IP address (10.x.x.x), but can't go in the tunnel.

We use the Netgear devices to connect to Cisco 3005 VPN concentrators on the 
back end.

Chad

Eric Hidle wrote:
> Speaking of VPN, this NetGear device smells a little bit like I could 
> install them in a bunch of places and create a secure private network. 
> Is this to say that I could, for example, put one at my house, one at my 
> parents' place, and one, say, in my friend's house, and have all of our 
> internal machines accessible to each other over the VPN?
>
> This is something I've been wanting to do for a while with cheap COTS 
> stuff rather than having a linux box at each place.
> E
>
> Chad Vogelsong wrote:
> > You may want to consider just getting a generic router / firewall.  We 
> > use the Netgear VPN Firewall FVS114 at work and distribute them to our 
> > employees for home VPN connections.  I think they were around $70 
> > each, but if you don't need VPN, you can go as low as $40 - $50 for a 
> > decent FW / Router.
> >
> > You definitely don't need to run the Windows setup utility for the 
> > FVS114.  Just plug it in, get a DHCP address, and connect with a web 
> > browser.
> >
> > For your print server, you can use the Hawking HPS1P (parallel) or 
> > HPS1U (usb).  They run about $50 - $55.  Of course they come with a 
> > Windows only print server manager, but you can use this perl script to 
> > configure them also.
> >
> > http://www.unixwiz.net/tools/hpsutil.html
> >
> > I helped add some options to it, so I know it works.
> >
> > Chad
> >
> > Bob Heise wrote:
> > > torsdag 14 september 2006 12:58 skrev Greg Helledy:
> > >
> > > If you need one I'm sure I have an ISA network card around here you 
> > > could have ;), though from reading on I'm guessing that's not the 
> > > solution you're after.
> > >
> > > Hmm, I don't see any mention of USB on the technical details page. 
> > > Then again it _does_ have "Smart Wizard and Install Assistant for 
> > > basic parabeter[sic] settings", oh boy parabeters!
> > >
> > >
> > > -Bob Heise
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