[vpn] Review of 13 VPN products

Longar, Dennis dlongar at ibsys.com
Wed Oct 3 15:42:02 EDT 2001


I agree with Dana!!  Also why didn't they pick the
Cisco Dedicated VPN products to test?  Pix is a fine
VPN box, but cisco has a whole separate line of
dedicated VPN only products (3xxx and 5xxx series).

They really should be comparing apples to apples.

Both IOS devices and the dedicated products support
multiple IKE policies.

-Dennis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dana J. Dawson [mailto:djdawso at qwest.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:04 PM
> To: Joel Snyder
> Cc: vpn at securityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: [vpn] Review of 13 VPN products
> 
> 
> Joel Snyder wrote:
> > 
> > Folks:
> > 
> > In case you hadn't seen it, Network World just published a 
> review I did
> > of 13 different VPN products, focusing on site-to-site and 
> enterprise applications:
> > 
> > http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2001/1001rev.html
> > 
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> 
> I disagree with the assertion in the article that the Cisco 
> products only allow
> a single IKE policy to be configured.  Both IOS and the PIX 
> allow multiple
> isakmp policy clauses, and it's not very hard to figure that 
> out.  If the people
> doing the testing missed something this obvious when 
> configuring the Cisco gear,
> it makes me wonder how much else they might have missed.  
> Because of this, I
> have serious doubts about the credibility of the testers and 
> their results.
> 
> Dana
> 
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