IPsec running IN to a linksys? [was RE: Wireless PCMCIA cards]

[chy at genuity.com (Chuck Young)]

Do folks running Linksys/Netgear routers make successful IPsec connections
from outside to inside?  I've been doing it (in to out) for over a year, but
never tried it the other way round.  Cool.  You would need another subnet
behind the internal host that is the tunnel endpoint, no?  Don't tell me you
are terminating on the router itself  :-)  or are you?

Bi-directional huh... at the same time?  I gotta get out more often...

Can someone please verify?

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Chuck Young
Security Consulting
Genuity E-Services
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-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-admin at blu.org [mailto:discuss-admin at blu.org]On Behalf Of
Drew Taylor
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:10 PM
To: Kent Borg; discuss at blu.org
Subject: Re: Wireless PCMCIA cards


Kent,

If you happen to be using a Linksys, be sure you have the latest firmware
upgrade. As of a couple of releases ago, they added support for IPSec. On
my router, the option is under "Advanced | Filters | IPSec Passthru". I
suspect that other manufacturers probably have options for this as well.
HTH.

Drew

At 08:52 AM 2/26/2002 -0500, Kent Borg wrote:

>Because my server is behind a NATing DSL/router/firewall box it seems
>that at least portions of the IPsec suite (AH) won't work for me when
>away from the house.
>
>I like the idea of IPsec, particularly the opportunistic encryption,
>but I thinking that getting a single ssh session up and running
>everything through it might be simpler.

Drew Taylor                     JA[P|m_p|SQL]H
http://www.drewtaylor.com/      Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker
mailto:drew at drewtaylor.com      *** God bless America! ***




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