Netscreen user limit, 5GT?

[r042wal]

I am working on a proposal for a realestate company. They have one large office with 20 users, and two smaller offices with 10 or fewer users. Because they are real estate agents, they are in and out of the office all the time.

I want to network the three locations with Netscreen 5GT appliances and a VPN tunnel. Remote users will also connect directly to the Small Business 2003 server (a PPTP endpoint) using PPTP so thay can collect their e-mail and browse their files. This means the Netscreens will have to pass PPTP VPN as well as have a IPsec tunnel from Netscreen to Netscreen.

Can I use the 10-user model Netscreen in all cases? The Netscreen counts IP addresses, but I will not have 20 VPN tunnels created.

 

[stussy]

If the newer 10-user models work the same as the older, you will not get away with this. Literally every outgoing connection counts as a user. I'm actually browsing this forum as I have to replace ours with an unlimited model, as we keep getting too many 'user limit exceeded' error messages. I'm looking at the 5GT Plus at the moment, which has (according to site):

75 Mbps firewall throughput, 20 Mbps 3DES VPN throughput, 2,000 concurrent firewall sessions, and 10 IPSec VPN tunnels.

Hope it's easy to configure!

HTH

Mike

 

[stussy]

Sorry, I should have added that the 5GT Plus has unlimited users...