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June 02, 2005
Check that off the list
Well instead of taking Memorial Day off, I spent 9 hours in the office reconfiguring our network. Finally moved from an old OpenBSD firewall to a newer all-in-one firewall/VPN solution. The OpenBSD box has served me well. I've been using it for years. However the firewall/NAT software (ipf/ipnat) are old and not supported anymore and the VPN software that I was running (ISKAMPD) is really hard to configure and I have never been able to get a Mac client to work with it.
So now we have separate networks for corporate, research and development, and a DMZ. All the boxes have new IP addresses which freed up a couple of static IP's for us. The WiFi routers are outside the firewall where they should be, and everything is working smoothly. I had to buy some VPN client software (VPN Tracker) for the Mac boxes, because the VPM client on the Mac is too user friendly to configure if it doesn't work the first time. It is nice to finally be able to send mail and access the dev boxes from anywhere securely over a VPN. My only problem now is that I can't print from my iBook over the VPN. So I've got to get that straightened out; then we are set.
Posted by David Adams at June 2, 2005 08:28 AM