Netgear - force all remote traffic through VPN
"William E. Ott" <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:59:14 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.vpn |
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| Organization | CPCS Technologies |
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Hello, I have several Netgear FVM318 and FVS318 model Prosafe Firewall/VPN appliances. I have no trouble with site to site VPNs with a Netgear at each end. I have several mobile users that connect via SafeNet's SoftRemoteLT version 10 software VPN client from hotels, homes, client offices, etc... without issue. My problem is I would like to be able to force the mobile users with the SoftRemoteLT software to send all of their traffic through the VPN at the central site. My concern is them sending and receiving e-mail and such over closed, uncontrolled networks like hotel or convention center wired broadband and I get real fright thinking of them accessing POP3 e-mail over a convention center wireless setup. Anyone sniffing the wired or wireless broadband at these locations could obviously intercept POP3 usernames and passwords and perhaps intercept attached documents. I've experimented with no success so far in being able to have Internet traffic do a U turn so to speak at the Netgear VPN end. With SoftRemoteLT it is easy to force all traffic through the VPN, but when doing this the POP3 requests and any web requests error out. I've got several static public IP addresses that are available if needed. Primary network is all behind a Fortigate Firewall/Antivirus device in transparent mode that sits in front of a Netgear FVM318. I can add another Netgear to the network and give it a static IP if that could somehow work. I'm open to anything at this point. Currently we are paying $75/month for mobile users to have Sprint/Verizon/Nextel wireless cards so they can avoid the hotel and convention center broadband but only a small number really need those cards, the rest would be fine with the VPN solution if I could funnel all traffic through it successfully. Does anyone have any advice or experience in making this happen with Netgear equipment? I have extra Netgear hardware that I can add to the central site setup if required...? I was thinking maybe static routes or something to a second router? Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thank you, Bill ************************************************************************* William E. Ott CEO and Chief Consultant CPCS Technologies http://www.cpcstech.com weo .AT. cpcstech.com [ primary e-mail ] weo .AT. skytel.com [ short, urgent messages only ] william.ott .AT. skytel.com [ two-way e-mail pager ] 9192918674 .AT. messaging.nextel.com [ short messages to Nextel phone ] [[ replace .AT. with @ and remove spaces to use e-mail addresses above ]] 919-363-3132 direct voice [ office/Nextel/v-mail ] 919-386-8033 office voice 800-391-7574 fax 800-204-7075 pager 919-291-8674 NexTel [ primary wireless phone ] 150*26*32385 NexTel Direct Connect 919-924-2282 SprintPCS [ secondary wireless phone ] ************************************************************************** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail communication and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information for the use of the intended recipients. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution or copying of it or its contents and attachments is prohibited and may be a violation of federal and state laws. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the office of William E. Ott immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer, or you may contact the office of William E. Ott in the eastern time zone (UTC -5) of the United States of America via telephone at 919-386-8033. You will be reimbursed for any reasonable costs associated in making notification.