looking for VPN appliance

[XJer]

Hello,

I am looking for a vpn appliance for my office. We currently have a firewall and wish to keep it in place. the vpn will have a public ip address and the local lan adapter of it will be plugged plugged into another lan adapter on the firewall.

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What would be a good device for this. It would be for approximately 10 max VPN users. The lan subnet is 10.0.1.0 and the subnet where the local lan interface of the VPN would be 10.0.2.0. Currently the FW route traffic fine accross both subnets.

one thing that vpn users will need is the ability for split tunneling. They would also need to be able to access resources on both of the subnets. Would there be routing issues for them to access the 10.0.1.0 subnet? Is there a vpn device that will push down routing information when the client connects? When the vpn user connects will they receive a virtual IP?

Cost is always an issue I was looking at some the the symantec gateway security devices but cannot seem to find info if they will work with this type of setup.

Thank you

 

[LloydSev]

personally, I'm partial to the Cisco PIX.

Computer/Network Technician
CCNA

 

[lgarner]

We use the Cisco 3005 and it works fine.

 

[biv343]

I'll vote for the Contivity 1000 series (1010, 1050, 1100). Works good, reasonably priced, flexible.

 

[JOAMON]

There are lots of VPN solutions available. Some expensive some not. A simple low cost approach would be the use of a small Cisco router like the 831 which can be configured as a VPN server. The client software if free so long as it is used to connect to a Cisco device but must have smartnet do be able to download the software.
Take a look at the following:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/n...g_solutions_white_paper09186a0080186fcf.shtml

 

[XJer]

Thank you everybody. I will check them out.