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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Manchester" <mchester@yahoo.com>
To: "slug" <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:07 AM
Subject: [SLUG] My delima
> Here's my dilemma and I'm hoping someone can help steer me in the right
> direction. I need to have a VPN using IPSec to a company intranet.
>
> 1. Should I get a router that supports this such as the linksys or the
> SMC?
> a. should I get a wireless router
> b. Or just a router and add the wireless later? if that is possible.
>
> 2. I would like to go wireless if not now in the near future. Are there
> pcmcia cards that work in a laptop running Linux.
>
> 3. Should I take one of my old machines and convert it into a Linux
> router. I have a Linux router now running Freesco on a 486 but can't
> get it setup for IPSec. I was looking at Coyote but I would need to
> replace the 486 with a 64meg P133 or greater to do IPSec. According to
> Coyote's page.
>
> 4. Can a wireless connection be setup on the Linux router at a later
> date. It looks like most of these use USB. Though some come with there
> own cards. And I'm not sure if Linux would support this type of setup on
> the router.
>
> 5. Can wireless be added to a commercial router like Linksys BEFSR41 or
> the SMC / DLink equivalent
>
> 6. Cost is a consideration, as this is for personal use and not business
> use. I would like to keep it under $200
>
> I would like the Linux solution, but setting up IPSec pass through
> doesn't appear to be to easy. I keep reading about kernel patches to get
> it to work. Plus getting a machine with more power than the 486. So I'm
> leaning towards the Linksys BEFSR41, but I did see somewhere on the net
> that people could only do the setup from Internet Explore, that won't
> work for me. I like SMC / DLink support for Linux so there router would
> be a consideration.
>
> I know, given enough time I could figure this all out by searching the
> internet. I have done some preliminary searches already. That's what
> made the above questions come up:) The problem being I need this
> solution ASAP and Don't have much time for research, So I'm hoping to
> tap into the vast knowledge of all the sluggers that might have
> experience in this area.
>
> Mike M.
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