Sonic Wall, VPN, and Dyn DNS...

[jeepguy267]

Linksys has a ddns tab for their vpn box (BEFVP41) for setting up vpn using dynamic dns (for those of us who do not have static IP as an option). I am looking into doing this with a sonic wall soho3 (already purchased with VPN option).

My question is this...Can the sonic wall product do this, or can I put the sonic wall behind a linksys box, or is there some *other way* that would make more sense?? Keep in mind the sonic wall is purchased and the linksys box is only $100

Thanks

 

[JimPletcher]

Can't answer the SonicWall part of your question, but - exactly what are you trying to do?

If you are trying to connect to the SonicWall from a remote location, you can use DynDNS with a DynDNS Upodater tool (both free) on the SonicWall end, and an IPSec client (line Sentinel) on the other end.

With this approach, only the IPSec client will be able to initiate the tunnel.

 

[mucous]

Hi,

I can safely say sonicwall VPN does work with Linksys home routers. All of my users (4) connect in this manner. I don't know your specifics, but Dyndns should not make a difference at least on the user end. As a matter of fact, we ONLY recommend linksys to our staff working remorely at this time. We tried D-Link and had issues, not sure about other brands, but we stick with Linksys since it works. Just enable ping and IPSEC pass-through.

FWIW...

Have a nice day