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#SHREW SOFT VPN ZYWALL UPDATE#
#SHREW SOFT VPN ZYWALL MANUAL#
#SHREW SOFT VPN ZYWALL UPGRADE#
#SHREW SOFT VPN ZYWALL WINDOWS 7#

vpn file can contain your Pre-Shared Key and all other information except for the user name and password.

vpn file for each user so that they get their own IP address. When adding a user, assign them to the XAUTH protocol and enable them.Īdjust the.

To configure the user database, click on the "VPN Users" link in the left navigation. The above configuration references using the User Database. Select IKE Policy: **** (name of IKE policy you just configured) PFS Key Group: Enable, DH-Group2 (1024 bit) Local Traffic Selection (may be different for your environment) Pre-Shared Key: **** (match whatever you use in ShrewSoft)ĭiffie-Hellman (DH) Group: Group2 (1024 bit) Go through a Basic VPN Setup, and then you can edit the settings to match the ShrewSoft configuration above. The router obviously needs to have a matching configuration.

#SHREW SOFT VPN ZYWALL MANUAL#

Note that there are several settings that need to be changed for your environment: the domain name, the manual IP address, the pre-shared key (from the "Authentication > Credentials" tab), and the remote network topology (from the "Policy" tab). The following is the (redacted) vpn configuration file we used. Because of the importance of that network resource and the lack of access to QuickVPN configurations, we quickly turned to a more direct IPSEC VPN option, which is outlined below. Due to the way that QuickVPN handled the client IP address (it appeared to pass through the remote LAN's IP address), our dual-network device was unable to route packets back to the client. It was able to access the remote network except for one key system that had two network cards (i.e., to provide connectivity fail-over). However, it is a black box solution with no configuration options. QuickVPN connected easily with the updated router firmware. However, the configuration described below came from a merger of this tutorial with our current ZyWALL configuration.

Existing Shrew Soft tutorial failed: This tutorial was designed for the SA 500, and the differences (or the updates to Shrew Soft) made it inadequate for configuring the RV180W.

QuickVPN tweaks: Upgrading the firmware and manually entering the configuration from scratch resolved the challenges I had with QuickVPN, so I would strongly encourage you to go that route. The interface was fine after the settings were reentered. Eventually, with some grumbling, I reset it to factory settings and manually configured it.

#SHREW SOFT VPN ZYWALL UPGRADE#

Firmware upgrade problem: Upgrading the firmware with a configuration in place broke the interface.Pre-firmware upgrade problems: Before upgrading the firmware, problems included inability to access remote network after successful QuickVPN connection, a "certificate cannot be found" error with QuickVPN, and an inability to get standard IPSEC tunnels to connect using third-party client software. Fortunately, the specs look pretty good and should theoretically support our small office ( datasheet).Īs with the previous VPN installations, there were some bumps in the road. So I went into this configuration knowing that half of the people who did the same thing wanted to throw the router away afterwards. If there were, one of the giants would probably gobble it up, repackage it, and charge more. That might be cynical, but it did not seem like there was any amazing solution in the SMB space. In my research, it appeared that anything under $500 is really hit-or-miss, and the ratings were only high on products when there were not many reviews (i.e., the misses had not been reported yet). Netgear small business is also stuck at 3 stars, and even the low-end Sonicwalls get panned. Amazon reviews showed it at 2.5 stars when we purchased ( non-wireless version is rated higher). Inconsistent issues are some of the hardest to troubleshoot, and having three of them simply meant that the router was no longer an ideal solution for our office.īecause all SMB VPN are cheap, and this appeared to have a 50/50 chance of working. Although it "generally worked," wireless connections would be dropped regularly and require a reconnect, multiple users could not VPN from a single remote location, and one of our staff had frequent VPN connection problems.

Given the changes, we decided to try out the CISCO SYSTEMS RV180W-A-K9-NA Wireless N VPN Router.

#SHREW SOFT VPN ZYWALL WINDOWS 7#

The QuickVPN client now works on Windows 7 64-bit ( that was a known issue), and firmware has been updated.

#SHREW SOFT VPN ZYWALL UPDATE#

Although Cisco is very slow to update its firmware and clients (sometimes giving the impression of being abandonware), two years was enough time for there to be some changes. We spent the last couple years using the ZyXEL ZyWALL 2WG after encountering major compatibility and configuration challenges with a Cisco RV220W.