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Old 09-24-2005, 04:12 PM
Duane Arnold
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Default Re: IPSEC wireless router ?

DEMAINE Benoit-Pierre <nntp_pipex@demaine.info> wrote in
news:43353ab0$0$24372$626a14ce@news.free.fr:

> I am looking for something secure:
> hardware wireless router:
>
> - une ethernet port dedicated to provider (DHCP and PPPOE capable)
> - one LAN port which would be linked to some switch
> - wireless repeter
>
> BUT but BUT: I want the wireless interface NOT TO BE BRIGED to LAN
> ethernet, but rather require any client to use IPSEC tunneling.
>
> Thats for home use; I am too lame to set linux box, because I dont
> feel liike setting up an IPSEC server, and had too much bad XP with
> IDE disks on home made router (usually crash after 2 or 3 years
> 24/24).
>
> I hope such a device should be available between 150 and 300 e
>
> Maybe there is some tutorials to convert this way some Linksys WRT ?
> or some Dlink with such native support ?
>


I don't think you can do what you want. You can use an IPSEC tunnel
between computers through the O/S such as Win 2K, XP and etc and that's a
VPN solution software to software, you can have a software VPN client on
a client machine with server software VPN implemented on a device such as
a firewall appliance or a er such as a Watchguard or others that fall
into that category such a Sonicwall, Cisco and others, software client to
server host VPN solutions such as AT&T Extranet or you can have hardware
to hardware VPN solution router to router.

http://www.homenethelp.com/vpn/

But some kind of a VPN solution between the wireless gateway device such
as a NAT router and your wireless machines on the LAN is questionable.
Maybe, a VPN solution with a wireless Watchguard FW appliance or others
and its client VPN software solution on the machines may work to protect
a wireless LAN situation between the gateway device and the clients I
don't know.

You can checkout the WG X5 series I think that's around $300 but the VPN
on the client machines cost extra and you can checkout others too

Duane :)

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