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Well I am new to the world of Firewalls. I have had a crash cousre of learning by the seat of my pants. Here is what I am doing with my VPN tunnels. I was using a Symantec VPN 100. The router was overloaded and kept crashing. It could not handle the load of three con-current tunnels. I had been using a different firewall solution and due to the need to reduce the electric bill I had to shut all my other systems down. I had to come up with a different solution. A friend that supports a different firm recommended M0n0wall. I have been using it for 6 to 8 months now. I converted from one firewall to another in less that 1 hour. I was using version 1.22. It was working great. I also noticed a huge drop in VPN tunnel performance and increase in ping times by 30 to 50 Ms. Tranfer rates dropped from 50 KBS to 30 KBS. With 1.32B I am back at 50KBS and it is working great. So here is what is going on. Customer 1. Is using a Symantec VPN 320 router. I set all the default setting took my setting from my other firewall and put them in to M0n0wall.. The tunnel came up and has been working with out issue. I have the firewall rules allowing full access over ther tunnel. Customer 2 is using a Linksys BEF41 VPN router. It is working great no issues. He is using RoadRunner so if his IP changes we have to reconfigure the firewall to see the new IP addess. Customer 3 is a VPN connection to my provider for virtural server and web services. That kinda of stuff. I am connecting between 1.32b to 1.22. Thaink god for my experiance with the other Firewall product. So fas i have had no major issue. I did have some werid issues. with bridging the wirelss card. Thats for anothoer email. RC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Allgeyer" <allgeyer at web dot de> To: "Ron Carter" <wcarterjr at earthlink dot net> Cc: <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 5:12 AM Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Beta 1.32b > Am Freitag, den 29.12.2006, 23:23 -0500 schrieb Ron Carter: >> Things I would like to see: >> 1. Some better help files > What exactly is missing? > >> 2. Basic configuration examples for VPN with >> different type of hardware > You have tunnels up with three different devices? > Give something back to the community: > http://doc.m0n0.ch/handbook/wishlist.html > >> 3. External access to the firewall for demo's and trouble >> shooting connection when trying to establish VPN connections > Yes, tcpdump and ssh would really be nice. In the meanwhile > use /exec.php. > > BR, PIT > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > copyleft(c) by | _-_ "Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX." (By > Peter Allgeyer | 0(o_o)0 Stephan Zielinski) > ---------------oOO--(_)--OOo----------------------------------------------- > > > |