[vpn] checkpoint and sonicwall

[Travis Watson]

I haven't seen anyone respond as yet, so I'll take a stab at it.

Though I've never worked with Sonicwall, I've worked with several other
IPSec VPN clients (including Checkpoint's) and I have yet to see two of
them play nice with each other.

I have seen the FreeS/WAN client play with both a Nortel Contivity,
FreeBSD box and Linux box (latter two using FreeS/WAN, of course), but
the Contivity had to be configured to use FreeS/WAN and, on the
Contivity side, WINS was lost in the process (understandably), so it
didn't do a whole lot of good for someone wanting to get to a bunch of
Windows resources by DNS name.  The network was lacking anything Samba
as well, so the FreeS/WAN wasn't much use either unless it was for UNIX
sysads needing to do command line banging.  It was just a test, really.

So, in short, I think you're screwed.  Sorry to the be the bringer of
bad news, and I hope I'm wrong, but you are probably stuck having to go
through install/reinstall hell unless you get a small hardware device of
your own and eliminate the client software piece completely.  If this is
a long term thing and necessary for work, you might be able to talk boss
man into it--especially if others can use it.  A Netscreen 5xp (for
example) retails at $495 with $150/yr support costs--not all too
expensive, really.  Just a thought.

Good luck.

--Travis



On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 04:46, fabian panthen wrote:
> i'm just a developer, no vpn guru and have the following problem:
> 
> i need simultaneous access to 2 remote sites, one accessed via
> checkpoint scureclient and the other via sonicwall vpn client.
> used to work fine with the crappy win me on my laptop but had to switch
> to win2k
> for .net install. since the i can only have one or the other installed
> for either one to work.
> this makes developing very uneasy so the question is whether i can
> access both
> vpn's with only one client?
> any experience?
> 
> thx
> 
> fabian
> 
> 
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