[geeks] software for WRT54G

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

I'm running into problems getting a VPN connection to work on my local
network.

My LAN looks kind of like this:

192.168.100.0/24

	This is an "exterior" network, with just a WRT54G connected to
	my WAN connection.  It does minimal NAT and wireless work.

192.168.1.0/24

	This is my main network, and it's router is a Snapgear SG300,
	with the WRT54G being its default router, and the SG300 being the
	default route for my "inner" LAN.

I know at least a couple of people that do VPN with the same general
setup, so I can't think of any reason this should not work.

The SG300 has VPN software, and the WRT54G has ipsec,pptp,i2pt pass
through enabled, but I still cannot get VPN working.

I've read online that a lot of people have trouble getting VPN working
through a WRT54G.

I have read that moving to sveasoft firmware will fix this.

Any ideas or recommendations on better firmware for the SG300 that might
help? sveasoft seems pretty old (last update in 2004).

I have the latest firmware in the WRT54G, version 4.2.1 or close to
that, and the ipsec FAQ I found says that it will only work with version
2.31 of the firmware. I can't go back, because 4.x has things I need.

One problem I'm also running into is the WRT54G has very limited number
of routes and forwards, and I'm running out of them.  I would hope that
replacement firmware would not have that kind of limit.



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