solaris -> nt -> vpn

Joe M Hoffman Joe.M.Hoffman at MAIL.SPRINT.COM
Thu Dec 16 15:22:21 EST 1999


Why don't you just use CheckPoints Secure Remote (VPN) solution.
It comes with the CheckPoint FW-1 package ????

Basically this is a von client......

-----Original Message-----
From: jonc [mailto:jonc at haht.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 7:52 AM
To: VPN
Cc: jonc
Subject: Re: solaris -> nt -> vpn


Using the NT as a router dialed into their network should work fine.

The only gotcha to worry about is that you may have to add a route to
the
remote network on your Solaris box (the default gateway would be the NT
box), and they may have to add a route to your machine on their network
(the
default gateway would be your NT box).  Of course, if you set the NT box
up
to act as a proxy server (masquerading) then they will see all requests
as
coming from the NT box, and they won't have to add a route to respond to
your network requests.

I've never played with CheckPoint, but I've built a lot of VPN's and
routing
always seems to be  the biggest hurdle for novices.  Good Luck!

Jon Carnes
MIS - HAHT Software

----- Original Message -----
From: "Indiana Zephyr" <aldiss at cjas.org>
To: <VPN at SECURITYFOCUS.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 5:54 PM
Subject: solaris -> nt -> vpn


> If anyone out there could provide comments and pointers on the
following,
> thanks much in advance.  obviously I'm a beginner, so not sure why I
got
> stuck with this, but anyway...
>
> My company needs to connect to someone else's VPN.  Both networks are
> behind CheckPoint FW-1.  Instead of setting up a VPN server on our end
> (which we probably can't afford) we're going to try connecting using a
VPN
> client, the way many laptop users connect using dialup networking.
The
> trick is, it's our dev server (Solaris) which needs to trade data
through
> the VPN link. Currently only NT VPN clients are available (aside: does
> anyone know if F-Secure's VPN client would work with CheckPoint's VPN
or
> is there proprietary stuff going on?).
>
> Someone came up with the great idea of setting up an NT box as a
router
> and installing the NT VPN client on there, then routing all traffic
from
> the Solaris box through the NT VPN client.  Does this sound possible
to
> people on this newsgroup?  I'd like a sanity check here.
Theoretically it
> sounds like we can implement it, but who knows.  Thanks for your help.
>
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