Hello,

I am writing today as I am looking for opinions on VPN appliances out
on the market right now. I purchased the Sonicwall Pro 2040 (EnhancedOS)
and after some testing and four months later I ran into a bug. A bug
that is on Sonicwall's "to do list", according to high level support.
Basically, the bug does not allow for third party VPN client software
that is behind a NAT'd device(router) to work correctly. Seems to be a
problem with the way it handles communications over Port 4500.

Unfortunetly I do not have the time to wait for Sonicwall to come up
with a remedy for this, and I am looking for some opinions on any VPN
appliances that fall within the same price range as the Sonicwall. Now I
am not limiting myself to "new, out of the box" hardware either. As you
may already know the Sonicwall's price range is $4000.00 CDN. I would
like to be somewhere around there, give or take $2000.00.

I am a small business so I do not need anything to extravagant but I do
need something to replace what I currently have. Any suggestions?


Thanks in advance

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Dom Coppola <kneed_spaaam_plz@hotmail.com> wrote:
>	I am writing today as I am looking for opinions on VPN appliances out
>on the market right now. I purchased the Sonicwall Pro 2040 (EnhancedOS)
>and after some testing and four months later I ran into a bug. A bug
>that is on Sonicwall's "to do list", according to high level support.
>Basically, the bug does not allow for third party VPN client software
>that is behind a NAT'd device(router) to work correctly. Seems to be a
>problem with the way it handles communications over Port 4500.
>
>	Unfortunetly I do not have the time to wait for Sonicwall to come up
>with a remedy for this, and I am looking for some opinions on any VPN
>appliances that fall within the same price range as the Sonicwall. Now I
>am not limiting myself to "new, out of the box" hardware either. As you
>may already know the Sonicwall's price range is $4000.00 CDN. I would
>like to be somewhere around there, give or take $2000.00.
>
>	I am a small business so I do not need anything to extravagant but I do
>need something to replace what I currently have. Any suggestions?
>
That is not a bug per se. This is called "NAT traversal" or "UDP
encapsulation" implemented as a "feature" by cisco initially. Patent
issues are stopping many companies from implementing such "feature".
Some "clean room" implementations of the functionality can be observed
though.

Please contact us for solutions to your problems. Use PGP please.
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Hi There,

Sonicwall just released new firmware (2.5.0.5 Enhanced) that corrects
this issue. It is available for download to registered/licensed users
at www.mysonicwall.com

joe

Dom Coppola <kneed_spaaam_plz@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<8Z-dnZrbpJMttsfcRVn-qA@rog
ers.com>...
> Hello,
>
> 	I am writing today as I am looking for opinions on VPN appliances out
> on the market right now. I purchased the Sonicwall Pro 2040 (EnhancedOS)
> and after some testing and four months later I ran into a bug. A bug
> that is on Sonicwall's "to do list", according to high level support.
> Basically, the bug does not allow for third party VPN client software
> that is behind a NAT'd device(router) to work correctly. Seems to be a
> problem with the way it handles communications over Port 4500.
>
> 	Unfortunetly I do not have the time to wait for Sonicwall to come up
> with a remedy for this, and I am looking for some opinions on any VPN
> appliances that fall within the same price range as the Sonicwall. Now I
> am not limiting myself to "new, out of the box" hardware either. As you
> may already know the Sonicwall's price range is $4000.00 CDN. I would
> like to be somewhere around there, give or take $2000.00.
>
> 	I am a small business so I do not need anything to extravagant but I do
> need something to replace what I currently have. Any suggestions?
>
>
> Thanks in advance

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