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VPN Quandary, please help!

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Solema

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Hi Everyone,
I am having some difficulty figuring out how to establish an IPSec point-to-point VPN with my current hardware setup. Let me break down what I have:

My end:
Linksys Cable Modem
Linksys WRT54G w/DD-WRT v23sp1
Cisco PIX 501e connected to WRT54G (need for work VPN)

My personal server's end:
Netgear FVS124G Dual-Wan VPN Gigabit Firewall
Static IP in datacenter

So here is my quandary. What I want to do is have TWO hardware point-to-point VPN's at home: one to my work, which is already set up, and one for my home non-work PC so I can be hard-connected to a domain controller/exchange server I have set up remotely.

My setup goes like this:
Linksys Cable Modem
connects to
WRT54G
My home PC and wife's PC connect to WRT54G
My PIX 501 also connects to WRT54G and provides VPN for work
My work laptop connects to PIX, using PIX as the gateway.

Is it even possible to add another gatway, either via hardware appliance, or Smoothwall/Clarkconnect, to the WRT54G and have mine and my wife's PC's use this appliance as their gateway?

I also have two home laptops that use the wireless on the WRT54G, which I would want to connect to the remote domain I have set up and authenticate to it as well as the home PC's.

Can anyone help me out on how I can accomplish this?
 
If you have a remote Windows Server you want to connect to, just set it up as a VPN Server and do a client-to-server connection using the Windows VPN client. This can be certificate-based (L2TP) if you wish.

I often have two or three simultaneous VPN connections to various Windows VPN servers and it works fine. I don't normally use hardware-based VPNs, so I can't help with those.
 
I do have a software VPN to it, but I want something with 100% (or near that) uptime. I want to be able to schedule nightly backups of my entire server over the WAN to my PC at home. Microsoft VPN's have a tendency to crap out after a period of time, and can't come close to the reliability of hardware VPN.

As an aside, I was looking at potentially getting one (or two) of Linksys' new RVS4000 4-port Gigabit Security Router with IPSec VPN. Anyone have any experience with this device or one similar to it?
 
why dont you use your pix as your gateway and your wrt54g as a wap & switch ?
You can acomplished what you want to do this way.
 
You misread what I am trying to do. My PIX IS the gateway for my WORK PC. I can't put my home stuff on it, nor do I want to, as it connects to my workplace domain, not my personal domain. What I want is a second VPN gateway to be able to point my HOME PCs to.
 
Originally posted by: Solema
... I want something with 100% (or near that) uptime. I want to be able to schedule nightly backups of my entire server over the WAN to my PC at home....
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That's going to take a REALLY fast network connection at your office or a really small server. A T1 connection can handle about 1GB per hour of outbound traffic.
 
My server is on a 100Mb internet backbone. 😀
Got the hookup from my work's datacenter and they are hosting it for free. 😀

So any ideas how I can accomplish this, hardware-wise?

Also, the total server data being backed up (before compression) is about 13GB. Even if I could have it do a weekly backup I would settle for that, but I really need something with better throughput than the software MS VPN.
 
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