[vpn] Re:[vpn] Timestep compatibility

[Ken.Harris at smiths-aerospace.com]

No good news - we failed to get Timestep to interoperate with Redcreek and gave
up.  However we do have many Timestep (now Alcatel) VPN boxes and latest
software upgrade we have is 3.10.022 which I believe was late 2001. In a pure
Alcatel b2b environment we find they work well but they are not feature rich
hence Alcatel have just announced a totally new but (allegedly) backwards
compatible range.

Ken 

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Subject:    [vpn] Timestep compatibility
Author: Travis <rtwatson at qwest.net>
Date:       19/02/2002 21:18

Has anyone out there had any luck building a b2b IPSec tunnel with a Timestep 
Permit device and another VPN hardware device (preferably Nortel)?  As far as 
I can tell, the Timestep doesn't like to play nice with others.

They may well work perfectly with each other, but nothing seems to have been 
upgraded since 1997.  They still crash in about 3 minutes if exposed to 
broadcast traffic and they don't want to work with Nortel--or even FreeS/Wan! 
 
At my place of employment, we use Nortel Contivities.  Though far from my 
first choice, at least we've been able to make it interoperate with several 
different hardware/software vendors.  I keep thinking I'm missing something, 
but I just can't figure it out and I'm tired of playing with crossover cables 
and trying to get it to work in a test lab.

Any feedback/suggestions would be very welcome.

--Travis

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