How well do various products interact?

Jonas Eriksson je at SEKURE.NET
Thu May 18 04:06:42 EDT 2000


OpenBSD <-> Cisco is working ok, you should
check the Interop tests:

http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html


Regards
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Jonas Eriksson
je at sekure.net +46-70-6770986
http://www.sekure.net/jonas/

On Wed, 17 May 2000, Alex Strasheim wrote:

> I have never set up a VPN before, but my employer is opening up a 2nd
> office and I need to put something in place.
>
> Is it reasonable to use an OpenBSD box on one end of a VPN, and a
> Cisco router on the other?  Or to put it another way, how standardized
> are the standards?
>
> Right now we have a small Cisco 1600 series router in the first
> office.  It's not modular.  We haven't bought the router for the 2nd
> office yet.
>
> I'd like to use an existing computer running OpenBSD for the VPN at
> the first office, possibly with an add-in crypto card, and have it
> talk to a cisco router that can do the VPN in hardware at the 2nd
> office.
>
> My feeling is that using Cisco hardware to do this stuff will
> be easier and more reliable, but that using existing hardware at the
> first office makes more sense than buying a new router that can do the
> VPN in hardware.  Even if we have to buy a crypto card to improve
> performance, it will only cost us $400, which is a lot less than a new
> router.
>
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