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Netgear ProSafe FVS318 VPN Firewall
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| Carroll McAllister 2007-09-27, 7:14 pm |
| We have replaced our DLink DI-808HV VPN router with a Netgear ProSafe
FVS318 VPN firewall.
With the DLink, we were able to make use of the "PPTP Server" function
to set up our VPN tunnels for connecting our satellite offices to the
main office. It worked like a charm.
Unfortunately, the DLink died earlier this week. We have replaced it
with the aforementioned Netgear VFS318 VPN Firewall. Unfortunately, as
of yet, I am unable to connect to any of the VPN connections I have
defined on the Netgear, using the VPN wizard in the web-based setup.
According to the box, I am led to believe you cannot access the VPN
connections created on the Netgear router without their ProSafe VPN
client software, for which there is, of course, an additional cost.
Is the ProSafe client software actually required to use the VPN features
of this router? Or is it possible to set up VPN connections in Windows
XP Pro and Windows 2000 that will connect to this router?
We're running a mixture of Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP Pro (our
satellite offices are behind Linksys and Dlink routers and dynamic IP
addresses). One desktop in each satellite office is running Windows
2000 Pro. All laptops we use are running XP Pro. All desktops in the
main office are running XP Pro. Our terminal server is running Windows
Server 2003 SP2.
Our main office (with a static IP address) is behind the aforementioned
Netgear router.
Any suggestions? Any how-to guides I can follow? I've printed out and
read portions of the manual for the Netgear router, but it is written
from the point of view of using the ProSafe client. Can what I'm
talking about doing be done with this router?
Thanks for any assistance.
-=> Carroll McAllister <=-
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| Carroll McAllister wrote:
> We have replaced our DLink DI-808HV VPN router with a Netgear ProSafe
> FVS318 VPN firewall.
>
> With the DLink, we were able to make use of the "PPTP Server" function
> to set up our VPN tunnels for connecting our satellite offices to the
> main office. It worked like a charm.
>
> Unfortunately, the DLink died earlier this week. We have replaced it
> with the aforementioned Netgear VFS318 VPN Firewall. Unfortunately, as
> of yet, I am unable to connect to any of the VPN connections I have
> defined on the Netgear, using the VPN wizard in the web-based setup.
>
> According to the box, I am led to believe you cannot access the VPN
> connections created on the Netgear router without their ProSafe VPN
> client software, for which there is, of course, an additional cost.
>
> Is the ProSafe client software actually required to use the VPN features
> of this router? Or is it possible to set up VPN connections in Windows
> XP Pro and Windows 2000 that will connect to this router?
>
> We're running a mixture of Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP Pro (our
> satellite offices are behind Linksys and Dlink routers and dynamic IP
> addresses). One desktop in each satellite office is running Windows
> 2000 Pro. All laptops we use are running XP Pro. All desktops in the
> main office are running XP Pro. Our terminal server is running Windows
> Server 2003 SP2.
>
> Our main office (with a static IP address) is behind the aforementioned
> Netgear router.
>
> Any suggestions? Any how-to guides I can follow? I've printed out and
> read portions of the manual for the Netgear router, but it is written
> from the point of view of using the ProSafe client. Can what I'm
> talking about doing be done with this router?
>
> Thanks for any assistance.
>
> -=> Carroll McAllister <=-
Looking at the specs for the VPN
"VPN Functionality: Eight (8) dedicated VPN tunnels, Manual key and IKE
Security Association (SA) assignment, 56-bit (DES), 168-bit (3DES), or
256-bit AES IP Sec encryption algorithm, MD5 or SHA-1authentication
algorithm, pre-shared key, perfect forward secrecy (Diffie- Helman and
Oakley client support), key life and IKE lifetime time settings, prevent
replay attack, remote access VPN (client-to-site), site-to-site VPN,
IPSec NAT traversal (VPN pass-through)
"
It doesn't seem to support the standard VPN client in windows which
would require pptp or l2tp/ipsec support.
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| Carroll McAllister 2007-10-02, 1:14 pm |
| Simon wrote:
> Looking at the specs for the VPN
> "VPN Functionality: Eight (8) dedicated VPN tunnels, Manual key and IKE
> Security Association (SA) assignment, 56-bit (DES), 168-bit (3DES), or
> 256-bit AES IP Sec encryption algorithm, MD5 or SHA-1authentication
> algorithm, pre-shared key, perfect forward secrecy (Diffie- Helman and
> Oakley client support), key life and IKE lifetime time settings, prevent
> replay attack, remote access VPN (client-to-site), site-to-site VPN,
> IPSec NAT traversal (VPN pass-through)
> "
> It doesn't seem to support the standard VPN client in windows which
> would require pptp or l2tp/ipsec support.
Evidently not, from what I've seen. I've downloaded and installed the
Draytek "Smart VPN" client, but have yet to get it to connect. In
looking through the log on the router, it shows an attempt to connect,
which fails either because of "lack of IKE proposal" or the one I just
saw in the log: "[Access Policy not found, dropping packet Src 31178
Dst 1026 from WAN]"
I've got to go through the manual and see what I'm missing. Evidently,
the request to connect to the router from the WAN is coming in, but the
connection is failing.
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