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Hi

I currently use Netgear ADSL VPN Routers (ie. hardware VPN) and it's working fairly well except now and again it drops the link and doesnt recover until I cycle the power on the device.

I'm looking for something better that will try to reconnect automatically.

Any ideas of good VPN routers out there? Cisco maybe?
 
rvanwyk said:
Hi

I currently use Netgear ADSL VPN Routers (ie. hardware VPN) and it's working fairly well except now and again it drops the link and doesnt recover until I cycle the power on the device.

I'm looking for something better that will try to reconnect automatically.

Any ideas of good VPN routers out there? Cisco maybe?
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Cisco would do the trick for sure, try their 837 router, I think it does VPN termination.

They're coming to end of line and the 1800 is the replacement at around R11000 if I remember correctly.
 
Get a Linksys WRT54GL and load DD-WRT firmware, it can act as a VPN server. It's around R750 to R800.
 
You might want to give RouterOS from Mikrotik a show. Its cheap and works excpetionally well.
 
Try Billion (e.g. 7402G), they are very robust at reconnecting and are smart enough to do dns re-resolves on every connection attempt (in case the peer has changed IP).
 
Been using the D-Link DI-804HV VPN Routers for years. Very few problems. I know there is a replacement, but don't know the model code.

Give them a bash.
 
rvanwyk said:
Hi

I currently use Netgear ADSL VPN Routers (ie. hardware VPN) and it's working fairly well except now and again it drops the link and doesnt recover until I cycle the power on the device.

I'm looking for something better that will try to reconnect automatically.

Any ideas of good VPN routers out there? Cisco maybe?
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Oh yes and thats ipsec for you..!!

why dont you just setup openvpn on two boxes and let them do the vpn connection. ;)
 
magneto said:
Oh yes and thats ipsec for you..!!

why dont you just setup openvpn on two boxes and let them do the vpn connection. ;)
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been there, done that, got the t-shirt. thanks, but im not going that route again. endless problems.

dont get my wrong, openvpn is excellent but in my experience not when used on a permanent basis.
 
JUGGY said:
Cisco would do the trick for sure, try their 837 router, I think it does VPN termination.

They're coming to end of line and the 1800 is the replacement at around R11000 if I remember correctly.
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have a look at cisco ASA's, think theres one that has a DSL port, there about R4000.00
 
One more vote for the Billion 7402 range very stable VPNs
 
Peon said:
You might want to give RouterOS from Mikrotik a show. Its cheap and works excpetionally well.
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Another vote for mikrotik.
I have around 4 permanent VPNs on mine - with a major amount of routing.
Also acts as a dandy PPPoE box for ADSL, and can do traffic control.
 
Are you using Dyndns? If you are that's prob were the hassel is - not your router.
 
Moederloos said:
Another vote for mikrotik.
I have around 4 permanent VPNs on mine - with a major amount of routing.
Also acts as a dandy PPPoE box for ADSL, and can do traffic control.
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let me get this straight. routerOS is an OS, right? so on what hardware would i put it?

PDH said:
Are you using Dyndns? If you are that's prob were the hassel is - not your router.
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no, own hosted dns server. :)
 
rvanwyk said:
let me get this straight. routerOS is an OS, right? so on what hardware would i put it?
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Short answer? Anything. Take a Pentium 1 and put 2 or 3 NIC's in and your good to go.

You could also buy routerboards from Miro that come with RouterOS.
 
BigChop said:
Been using the D-Link DI-804HV VPN Routers for years. Very few problems. I know there is a replacement, but don't know the model code.

Give them a bash.
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New ones coming are the DIR-130 and the DIR-330.
Don't know the ETA yet ;)
 
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