[geeks] firewall/vpn

[Lionel Peterson]

> From: Caleb Shay <caleb at webninja.com>
> Date: 2004/05/05 Wed PM 05:31:42 GMT
> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: [geeks] firewall/vpn
> 
> At work we have a sudden need for firewall/vpn for one of our
> locations.  We've got 2 machines and 5 IP addresses that need to be
> accounted for (via port-forwarding for services or whatever) and it
> needs to support router to router VPN connections via either pptp or
> ipsec.  Oh, and the budget is <=$500, anybody have any recommendations?
> Rack mountable prefered.

How far apart are the offices? You can get a lot of Cat5 for $500 - once you factor in the savings (since the remote site won't need internet connectivity), maybe you could up the budget? Cat5 seems to sell for about $200/mile retail (after volume discount - $50/1000' is very common 'round here)...