On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Chris Bagnall <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 29/4/13 2:35 pm, [email protected] wrote: > >> I have a task to connect a number of small/home offices via VPN (OpenVPN >> is preferred but could be IPSEC) to a central location that has a >> pfSense box as its FW/Router. Does anyone have any recommendations >> based on their personal experiences as to which brands/models to look at >> first? >> > > Honestly, your best best is to use pfSense to connect to another pfSense. > > I've spent goodness knows how many hours over the last few years trying to > persuade various Netgear, Draytek, Buffalo, etc. etc. routers to talk to > pfSense, and it's just not worth the hassle. Stick a litle embedded pfSense > at each remote location (ALIX boards are an economical choice) and it'll > Just Work (TM). It could just be my own ignorance, but I have had little success trying to connect a pair of pfsense firewalls via OpenVPN. On the other hand, I had little trouble connecting an instance of pfsense to a Tomato router, with the former acting as OpenVPN client. db
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